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In the modern world, computer systems are playing a greater and greater part in everyday life. From office work, to entertainment, to providing information, the personal computer is quickly becoming a more integral part of the home. However, most PC users have no idea how most of the parts which make up their computer work internally. I am one of those who find that the framework provided by the school curriculum in the United Kingdom is of great assistance in planning lessons and learning plans but the curriculum does not plan out the work for us. We therefore need to invest a lot of time and effort into developing schemes of work that will suit the people we are going to teach. For me, it is a fantastic opportunity to employ our imagination and creativity to make lessons useful and interesting for children of different abilities. It is why I wrote this book. This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works. Computing or computer science will create a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technology change. It is the umbrella term for the subject that comprises 3 elements: computer science, information technology and digital literacy. It is helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology. The new focus on computer science will provides a well-defined and rigorous academic discipline and a unique lens through which pupils can understand the world. Children must therefore be taught computing if they are to be ready for tomorrow technology challenges. Our ingenuity to invent new means of communicating with each other, our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries however still a lot remain to be done with the arrival of quantum computing. A more rigorous approach to computer science teaching will help compete across the full spectrum of digital industries. This can only be achieved by equipping ourselves with the foundation skills, knowledge and understanding of computing do the necessity to introduce “computational thinking” at school via the new national curriculum (programmes of study and targets), the 2014 national curriculum that introduces computing which will replace ICT.
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PublisherLes Éditions du Net
Release dateNov 13, 2015
ISBN9782312039503
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Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies - Franck Ismael Djédjé
Franck Ismael Djédjé
Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies
Learn tomorrow’s computer today
To project our self in the next generation of computers (quantum computers), in the next era of computing, it is important to understand how today’s computers (silicon-based computer) works.
A quantum computer is a computer design which uses the principles of quantum physics to increase the computational power beyond what is attainable by a traditional computer.
This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works.
© Les Éditions du Net, 2015
ISBN : 978-2-312-03950-3
Table of Contents
PC - Peripheral Devices
PC Internal Architecture, CPU & CPU Socket
Personal Microcomputer
The Processor Unit
Lesson 1
The Fetch Execute cycle & the Processor
Matrices and Digital Images
The components of the simplified processor
Lesson 2
The ‘fetch’ section of the instruction execution cycle
Lesson 3
The Fetch execute cycle - C programming language as example
What Are Pointers?
How to use Pointers?
NULL Pointers in C
Pointers and string
A variable's address vs a variable's value
Lesson 4
Logic gates
De Morgan’s Laws
Lesson 5
Binary Mathematics
Lesson 6
Binary number and transportation cables (USB and PS2 cables as example)
Lesson 7
Introduction to SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method).
Lesson 8
Tree Diagrams
The tree Diagram, example of a search engine
The tree Diagram, in software testing
Lesson 9
Programming
Lesson 10
The atomic world
Lesson 11
The photovoltaic effect
Moore’s law (transistor as example)
Lesson 12
Introduction to a Personal Computer or PC
How to clean a PC (Personal Computer)?
Indexes
Index 1
Algorithm: adding and subtracting binary numbers using JavaScript
Algorithm: adding and subtracting binary numbers using Python
Index 2 (CPU and CPU fan)
Index 3 (exercises sheet)
Index 4 - from a DVD to a computer screen
Index 5 - Learn tomorrow’s computer today
Index 6 - Computer Programming Board Game
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PC - Peripheral Devices
PC Internal Architecture, CPU & CPU Socket
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Noobs is an easy installer for Raspbian.
Raspberry Pi 3
The microcontroller
The microcontroller is an even micro-computer than the Raspberry Pi is. I can also be seen as a micro-motherboard of a PC (Personal Computer).
Microcontrollers
The Processor Unit
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