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Simulation Programs

Simulation programs are an important tool in the educational process. It explains
information that is difficult to imagine in an easy way, bypassing the elements of
time, place, and elements of danger through powerful programs using the
elements of sound, movement, image, text, and others.
Simulation means: providing artificial situations using a computer that completely
simulate real situations that occur in reality, which allows the student to
experience these situations, which are usually difficult to find in natural life due to
their scarcity or the high cost of representing them in reality, or their danger. In
simulation software, the learner finds himself in a situation that is very similar to
reality, and is faced with problems that require choosing paths or alternatives,
making decisions, and then watching the results of the decisions he makes.
For example, a simulation program may be designed to simulate the formation of
an alloy for the manufacture of silicon chips
that are used in the manufacture of
computer processors. The computer
presents the student with different
elements to choose from in certain
quantities, then mixes the elements and
performs various chemical treatments on
them until the alloy is formed, and then cuts it. into rings of a certain thickness
and specific areas, all in representative situations where the options and
operations are shown to him on the computer screen, and he deals with the
program particles via the keyboard or mouse, and in the end he has to test the
resulting chips, in terms of their properties related to semiconductors, to judge
their reliability. The results of his decisions and their accuracy.

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