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| Administration | Articles relating to this site and the course |
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| Site Administration Site Administration
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| Course Administration and Discussion Course Administration and Discussion, including heads-up and casual conversation
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| Fundamentals | Fundamentals of computer systems |
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| Computer Systems Fundamentals of computer systems
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| Hardware | Computing hardware |
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| The Central Processing Unit The purpose, function and characteristics of the CPU |
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| Binary Logic The Whys, Hows and Wherefores of Binary Logic
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| Memory ROM, RAM, Virtual, cache, flash and so forth |
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| Input and Output Devices Why do we need I/O and which device is right for the job |
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| Secondary Storage Why use Secondary Storage, and what are its characteristics |
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| Software | Software |
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| Application Software Types of application software and its selection |
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| Representation | Representation of data in computer systems |
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| Units Take a big byte |
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| Number There is no such word as denary.
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| Character Character building |
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| Images A picture is worth a thousand words, or maybe a megabyte. |
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| Sound Here's a sample |
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| Instructions When is an instruction not an instruction? |
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| Databases | Databases |
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| Database Concepts What is it and why do we need it? |
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| Relational Databases Entities and Tables |
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| Object Oriented Databases Tables? What Tables? |
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| Communications | Computer communications and networking |
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| Networks What is a network and what does it do? |
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| The Internet What is an internet? |
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| Programming | Programming |
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| Practical Excercises Practical stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere
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| Algorithms What is one and how do we write them? |
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| Programming Languages What are they and how do they work? |
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| Control Flow How to control flow in an imperative language |
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| Handling Data Constants aren't; variable wont. |
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| Testing No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrupttit#d dat@. |
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