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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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