CSC 105 Lecture 1: Lectures 2, 3, 5

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CSC 105
• Professor: Little Rich

Document Summary

Store informaion (keyboard, mouse, scanner, etc. ) (monitor, printer, etc. ) (memory) The beneits of an integrated circuit are: reliability, size, speed, eiciency, and cost. Moore"s law (1965) predicted that the power of a silicon chip of the same price would double every two years. The malleable matrix: an excel ile is called a workbook, it is composed of worksheets, sheets are composed of muliple cells, each cell have a unique address (ex. Formulas (which always begin with an equals (=) sign) Sum(a1:a5)) (the : means a range of cells) Arithmeic operators: addiion subtracion muliplicaion division percent exponent. Reference operators: space range combine ranges intersect ranges. 3: negaive, * and , + and . A bit (binary digit): the smallest unit of informaion, can have two values: 1 or 0, can represent numbers, text, codes, or instrucions. Word size: there are 8 bits in a byte.