Intro To Computing PDF

INTRO TO COMPUTING S.Y. ‘24 - ‘25 1.0 Introduction to the Profession 1.0 Introduction to the Profession 1.1 Intro to the computing industry 1.1 Intro to the computing industry Computer Science...

INTRO TO COMPUTING S.Y. ‘24 - ‘25 1.0 Introduction to the Profession 1.0 Introduction to the Profession 1.1 Intro to the computing industry 1.1 Intro to the computing industry Computer Science ○ Ranges from theory through 1.2 Certification and technology trends programming to cutting edge development of computing solutions. 2.0 Introduction to Computer ○ Offers a foundation that permits graduates to adapt to new technologies and new ideas. 2.1 Computer Basics ○ Most computer science programs require some mathematical background. 2.2 Uses and Applications of Computer designing and building software 3.0 Hardware Components of Personal developing effective ways to Computer solve computing problems, such as storing information in 3.1 The System Unit databases, sending data over networks or providing new approaches to security 3.2 Memory and Storage problems devising new and better ways of using computers and 3.3 Input and Output addressing particular challenges in areas such as 3.4 LAB NOTES robotics, computer vision, or digital forensics Information Systems 4.0 Number Systems ○ concerned with the information that computer systems can provide to aid a company, non profit or 4.1 Number System Conversion governmental organization in defining and achieving its goals. 4.2 Addition and Subtraction in Number ○ also concerned with the processes System that an enterprise can implement and improve using information technology understand both technical and organizational factors be able to help an organization determine how information and technology enabled business processes can provide a foundation for superior organizational performance Information Technology ○ Often used to refer to all of computing N Printer computers, portable media > Power monitors > Faxes players, and digital cameras > Machine controllers > Copiers Game consoles > Medical devices ○ mobile computing device designed for single-player or multiplayer video Evolutions of Computer games ➔ Abacus Servers ◆ beads on rods to count and calculate ○ controls access to the hardware, are widely used in Asia software, and other resources on a ➔ Slide Rule (1630) network ◆ based on Napier’s rules for logarithms Provides a centralized storage used until 1970s area for programs, data, and ➔ jacquard Loom (1804) information ◆ Joseph Marie Jacquard Mainframes ◆ device fitted to a power loom that ○ Large, expensive, powerful computer simplifies the process of that can handle hundreds or manufacturing textiles with such thousands of connected users complex patterns as brocade, damask simultaneously and matelassé. Supercomputers ➔ Analytical Engine ○ fastest, most powerful computer ◆ proposed mechanical general-purpose Fastest supercomputers are computer designed by English capable of processing more mathematician and computer pioneer than one quadrillion Charles Babbage instructions in a single second ◆ first described in 1837 as the Embedded computers successor to Babbage's Difference ○ special-purpose computer that Engine, a design for a simpler functions as a component in a larger mechanical computer. product ➔ Biggest advancements that led to modern Consumer Home INFO computers Electronics Automation ◆ Electricity Device ◆ Transistor ◆ Microchip > Mobile and > Thermostats > Antilock brakes digital > Sprinkling > Engine control ◆ Data storage telephones systems modules ➔ Vacuum Tubes > Digital > Security > Airbag ◆ First Generation (1940-1956) of televisions monitoring controller Electronic Computers > Cameras systems > Cruise control ◆ Glass tubes with circuits inside. have > Video > Appliances no air inside of them, which protects recorders > Lights the circuitry. > DVD players and recorders N Mobile User ◆ Sound card Office/Home ◆ Video card Personal Office User Connect to ◆ Processor financial other computers ◆ Memory management Look up on a network or Web access information the Internet Send and Transfer Communicati receive e-mail information ons messages Play video Make games Entertainment telephone calls Listen to music Watch movies Ex.: of comp usage ➔ Motherboard is the main circuit board of the > Power User > Enterprise User system unit ◆ Computer chip contains integrated Work with multimedia Communicate among circuits Use industry-specific employees software Process high volumes of PROCESSOR transactions ➔ also called the central processing unit (CPU), Blog interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer ◆ Contain a control unit and an Computer Applications arithmetic logic unit (LGU) Education Multi-core processor Finance Dual-core processor Government Quad-core processor Health care Science Publishing Travel Manufacturing 3.0 Hardware Components of Personal Computer ★ Control unit ○ Component of the processor 3.1 The System Unit that directs and coordinates ➔ Case that contains electronic components of most of the operations in the the computer used to process data computer ★ Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) ○ Performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations ➔ For every instruction, a processor repeats a set of four basic operations, which comprise a ➔ Inside the system unit: machine cycle. ◆ Drive bay(s) N