Friday, September 1st
Minimum Day 8:30 - 9:35
ITGS Books have arrived! If you did not get one go to the library to pick yours up.
News Articles Presentations - Yasmine and Brandon will present their news articles today.
Computer Parts Quiz
Complete POST Lab
Homework
Have a great weekend!
Add the following terms to your definitions spreadsheet — data, information, hardware components, for example, input devices, output devices, processing, storage, memory (RAM, ROM), MHz, dpi, bit, KB, MB, GB, TB, ASCII, compatibility, OCR, OMR, bar code, verification and validation, encryption/decryption, peripheral, operating systems (multitasking, boot) and utilities, for example, defragment, disk format, virus scan programsNOTE: These terms are meant to be defined as you read. Not all of these terms will be defined in this first reading so don't panic if you do not define all of these terms at once.
What
3.1 Hardware page 26
Central processing unit (CPU), microprocessor, clock speed: for example, megahertz (MHz), gigahertz
(GHz), terahertz (THz)
• Primary storage: read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM)
• Secondary storage: optical, magnetic, flash memory: for example, USB (universal serial bus) flash drive
• Bit, byte, kilobyte (KB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB), terabyte (TB), petabyte (PB), exabyte (EB),
zettabyte (ZB), yottabyte (YB)
• Character encoding: ASCII (Unicode and American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Why
Understanding how information flows in a computer system allows one to make connections with larger systems and the flow of information.
How
Completion of the Black Box lab and the corresponding quiz to identify the components of a computer.
Convert the following:
110110 =
101011 =
56 =
145 =