CP102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Personal Information Manager, Metasearch Engine, Desktop Publishing
Document Summary
Cheat sheet: 1 sided only, hand written. Technology on the world stage (political issues, digital divide, health care, environment) Technology and our society (web 2. 0, cognitive surplus. Technology at home, technology and your career. How we connect and how we consume. Language of computers (bit, byte, large # of bytes, binary to decimal/decimal to binary. Types of computers (mainframe, supercomputer, embedded, smartphone) Peripherals (input/output devices: input devices (keyboard, mouse, stylus, output devices (monitors, printers, speakers and earphones) Output devices printers (inkjet, laser, thermal printer, plotter) Processing & memory on the motherboard (cpu, rom, ram and cache, slots for expansion, network interface) Cpu performance measures (# of cores, processor speed) Storing and data and info: hard drives, optical storage, portable options. Connecting on the web: email, social networking, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, Software: set of instructions that tell the computer what to do. Word processing software, spreadsheet software, presentation software, database. Software, note taking software, personal information manager software.
