Monday 22 September 2014

Reliability

Reliability - Something that is trustworthy enough to do something without breaking easily.

Reliability is important because if a computer does constantly break or crash it can put important matters in danger. Not just pictures and documents rely on your home computer to not crash and delete everything; hospitals need reliable computer systems as well. If a computer system crashes in a hospital it can put many patients’ lives in danger.

to improve reliability you can use hardware data and redundancy

Monday 15 September 2014

Terminology

Computer System - A computer system is one that is able to take a set of inputs, process them and create a set of outputs. This is done by a combination of hardware and software.

Hardware - Hardware is a generic term for any part of the computer that you can physically youch, pick up, hold, move around the room etc. in other words, hardware are the physical parts that make up the computer.

Software - software are the applications and programming instructions that tell your computer what to do and enable you to use it for things such as playing games, writing an essay or listening to music.

Input - what is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system, where a device through which, energy or information enters a system.

Output - a place where power or information leaves a system.

Process - processing is the stage where the input data is manipulated in order to produce meaningfu; information.

Storage - A computer storage device is any type of hardware that stores data. The most common type of storage device, which nearly all computers have, is a hard drive.  The computer's primary hard drive stores the operating system, applications, and files and folders for users of the computer.

Pseudo code - is the simple way of writing complicated programming code in English.

Algorithm - is a sequence of instructions used to solve problems.

Machine Code - Raw instructions that the CPU carry out.

Hex - Is binary code written in simpler form so we can understand.
 

Friday 12 September 2014

Binary

In our first week of Computer Science we learnt about Bianary.
My name in binary 01001100 01101001 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000110 01100001 01110101 01101100 011010101 01101110 01100101 01110010

Inrotduction

Welcome to my GCSE computing blog. here is where i will keep all of my work from comptur science classes for the next two years.