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Ch01: Introduction to the World of Computers

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Computers in Your Life

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why we learn about computers?because we use computers in the home, education, on the job and on the go.

What Is a Computer and What Does It Do?

Data Vs. Information

Computers Then and Now

Hardware

Software

Computer Uses and Professionals

Computers To Feed Every Need

Embedded Computers

Mobile Devices

PCs

Midrange Servers

Mainframe Computers

Supercomputers

Computer Networks and the Internet

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what are the internet and world wide web?accessing a Network or the Internet surfing the web, searching the web, e-mail.

Computers and Society

Benefits of a Computer-Oriented Societty.

Risks of the Computer-Oriented Society

Differences in Online Communications

The Anonymity Factor

Information Integrity

Ch-02/ The System Unit: Processing and Memory

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Overview

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This section talks about how computer system represents the instructions of data and programs.

Data and Program Representation

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Digital Data Representation

Representing Numerical Data:
The binary numbering System
Coding System for Text-Based Data
Coding System for Other Types of Data

Representing Software Programs:
Machine Language.


Inside the System Unit

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The main case of a computer is the system unit.

The Motherboard

The Power Supply and Drive Bays

The CPU

Memory

Fans, Hearts, Sinks, and Other Cooling Components

Expansion Slots, Expansion Cards, and ExpressCards Modules.

Buses

Ports and Connectors

How the CPU Works

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CPU is that in a single component, a variety of circuitry and components packaged together.

Typical CPU Components

The System Clock and the machine cycle

Making Computers Faster and Better Now and in the Future

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Computer designers have been trying to make faster and more powerful computers for over many years.

Improving the Performance of Your System Today

Strategies for Making Faster and Better Computers

Future Trends

"Random and Sequential Access"

Ch03: Storage

Storage System and Characteristics

Hard Drives

Optical Discs

Flash Memory

Other Types of Storage System

Evaluating Your Storage Alternatives

Input and Output

Overview

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This chapter covers:– Different types of keyboards and pointing devices– Types of scanners, readers, and digital cameras– Audio input devices– Types of display devices and how they work– Types of printers and how they work– Audio output

Pointing Devices

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Pointing devices: Used to select and manipulate objects– Used to input data– Used to issue commands to the computer• Common types of pointing devices:– Mouse– Pen/stylus– Touch screen

Scanners

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Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror action film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are people with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec corporation searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok, a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale, is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners

Digital Cameras

Audio Input

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The devices that can be used for audio input:* Voice inputand speech recognition systems.* Music input system.

Audio output

printerts

The World is Flat

Ch01: While I was Sleeping

Ch02: Flatteners

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11/9/1989 The fall of Berlin wall

8/9/1995 Netscape

Workflow software

flattener 4,5 and 6

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flattener 8,9 and 10

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