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Computer Science
A computer is a device that inputs, manipulates, stores, and outputs digital information based on stored instructions known as programs. The first main function of a computer is input/ output....
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Computer Science
An operating system is software (or, sometimes, firmware) that manages and controls a computer, serving as an interface between various applications and the computer hardware. End users do not...
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Computer Science
When most end-users encounter computers, they are working on what are sometimes referred to as "virtual machines." In other words, when you interact with a computer or smart phone, there are many...
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Computer Science
Computers originated not so much with a technology but with an idea. That idea was that it is possible to break down complex activities, whether procedures or mathematical computations, into a...
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Computer Science
Moore's Law was really not intended as a statement about computer science but simply a rule of thumb about the progress of chip-making during a specific period based on an observation made by...
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Computer Science
There are basically three ways to make computer chips smaller. One is to make transistors smaller, another is to make chips with fewer transistors and a third possibility is to use software to make...
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Computer Science
include necessary header files main declare variables mealprice, tip as float input mealprice from user/file tip=0.15*mealprice Display tip end
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Computer Science
Aside from Microsoft, there are other operating systems : -Micsoft - Microsoft -Mac OS X - Apple -Linux - Sun Microsystems. These are the main operating systems everyone uses.
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Computer Science
Computer is an electronic data processing machine which accepts data in its raw form along with the instructions, processes it electronically and gives back useful information. An operating...
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Computer Science
A basic conditional expression is one in which a particular input variable is tested; the result of the same determines what the value of an output variable is. For example, consider the expression...
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Computer Science
There are a few things that can be stated. First, you can buy a program to protect you computer. If you go this route, you should get Norton anti-virus. This is the standard program that people...
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Reference
PDF or portable document format was created by Adobe Systems and is a well recognized format to exchange documents. The file created when any document is converted to the PDF format looks exactly...
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Computer Science
The miniaturization of high speed computer power is referred to, in the book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, as "the steroids". When the Internet made a social impact in 1995 via Netscape and...
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Computer Science
In Thomas Friedman's breakthrough book The World is Flat, chapter 2 talks about "The Ten Forces that Flattened the World". The breaking of the Berlin Wall World Wide Web/Netscape Productivity...
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Dot-Coms
The cartoon speaks to how the Dot- Com boom of the 1990s was so pervasive. In the cartoon, the main character speaks of renaming himself "e-rob.com" and "going public." When he concludes it with...
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Technology and Society
If the technology being used is also part of the content being taught, then relevancy is one of the major pros of using technology to facilitate learnings. Helping students understand how to use...
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Computer Science
I think that one of the most basic ways in which a Google doc can operate in a collaborative setting is that it enables other to make changes to it. When a Google doc is started by one person, it...
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Computer Science
CMOS stands for Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor and is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. It is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital...
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Computer Science
When computer program designers compiled taxonomies for storing information, they took as their paradigm the organization and vocabulary of the paper systems that preceded electronic storage....
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Computer Science
RAM or random access memory is a form of memory that can be accessed at a very fast rate. It is used by the central processing unit or CPU to write and read data as it performs its operations. The...
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Computer Science
Funds deposited in a bank, unless in cash, have always had a "float" period of 1 - 10 days before a depositor could use the money for anything. Real time access means funds available to me as soon...
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Computer Science
Although it is difficult to determine where the first error is coming from since you do not include your line numbers, the error on line 41 is that you have put an accent grave in your code instead...
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Computer Science
I agree with readerofbooks, it would be helpful to know what kind of website you want. I would suggest that you try weebly (see the link below). You can sign up for free and you can actually...
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Computer Science
A realtime operating system is a special type of operating system used for what are called embedded systems. These are computers that often don't have a screen or keyboard and have limited...
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Computer Science
I found this on wikipedia hope it helps
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Computer Science
We'll recall what 9 bit numbers means: the bits from 8 to 0 correspond to the following values: 256 ; 128 ; 64 ; 32 ; 16 ; 8 ; 4 ; 2 ; 1. We'll subtract the value of each bit from 137 till we'll...
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Computer Science
"Virtual reality" is a "reality" that is created within the constructs of a computer. It has no basis in actual physical constructs. Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated three-dimensional...
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Computer Science
The instructions that a computer's hardware is able to understand are in the form of binary code which is a series of zeros and ones. When computers were invented all programming was done by...
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Computer Science
The term "obscenity" refers to anything that offends people's morals. However, the term is generally used to refer to things that are offensive in a sexual way. In other words, a depiction of...
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Computer Science
Cryptography is a means to keep data secure and in a form that can be understood only by someone who has the key to decrypt the data that has been encrypted. A key is basically a set of rules which...
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Computer Science
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Computer Science
Another kind of danger is one of national security. All sorts of vital functions of the nation are dependent on the internet. In past years, there has been evidence of the Chinese (among others)...
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Computer Science
Main memory is directly or indirectly connected to the central processing unit via a memory bus. It is actually two buses (not on the diagram): an address bus and a data bus. The MAIN MEMORY acts...
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Computer Science
If you look at the recent history of computers and microchips, the technology has gotten much smaller, faster, and less expensive. Moore's Law basically states that the number of transistors that...
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Computer Science
I believe the computer language you are looking for in this answer is called FORTRAN. This was really the first high level programming language, invented by scientists and mathematicians in the...
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Computer Science
To add to the previous post Examples of anti virus software include McAffee, Norton, and AVG. These are programs that the public can purchase to protect their computers from malware, viruses, logic...
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Computer Science
You know, this question is actually a really tricky one to answer for anyone who is not a part of that world. And those who are "part of that world" seem to have trouble explaining it in ways that...
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Computer Science
It really depends on what you are going to call a "computer." The first meaning of the word applied to a person who could do complex calculations quickly, so in that case I think we'd have to get...
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Computer Science
I’ve looked over the information thoroughly, and it doesn’t seem as if there is anything to disucss. No discussion question has been asked. Is there something about this that you want us to...
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Computer Science
There are several types of operating systems, each with its own advantages. To begin, the "operating system" is the set of interfaces and controls through which the user interacts with the...
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Computer Science
The creator of Artificial Intelligence studies begins with the work of pioneer computer scientist Alexander Turing (1912-1954) who in the 1930's evolved a concept of a "Turing Machine." This was...
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Computer Science
A discussion of history of computer becomes somewhat open to conflicting views because of a lack of common definition of what constitutes a computer. Computers ave gradually evolved out of very...
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Computer Science
There are a number of advantages of using Data Dictionary in computer system analysis and design. The advantages are: consistency, clarity; reusability; completeness; increase in sharing and...
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Computer Science
Hardware is the machinery of a computer, things like the hard drive and the memory chips. These are physical devices that you can look at and touch. Software is the programming, the things that...
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Computer Science
Thrashing is a phenomenon in virual memory system,where excessive amount of page swapping back & forth between main memory & secondary storage results in high overhead & little useful...
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Computer Science
Computer hardware refers to the physical equipment used in the computer. It is differentiated from software which refers to the information and data contents stored within the computer system or...
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Computer Science
Any algorithm that has some data entry has 3 cases: -Best-case; -worst-case; -average. These cases represent their performance and the evolution of their performance depending on the number of data...
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Computer Science
The operating system is the most important program that is on a computer. The operating system basically runs the computer and allows other programs to run as well. The operating system does all...
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Computer Science
The process of allocating memory at run time is known as dynamic memory allocation. In computer science, dynamic memory allocation is the allocation of memory storage for use in a computer program...
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Computer Science
Part of the history of the computer cannot be told without the emergence of the personal computer. Ed Roberts, the President of a company named MITS Incorporated, oversaw a company that made...