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Definitions computers hardware basic Coding

Schemes Computer Peripherals
Inthisarticlewewoulddiscussaboutcodingschemesused
in computer, definition of computer. Later we would cover
measurementunitusedincomputerstorages.

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WhatisaComputer?
Anelectronicmachine
thatcanbeprogrammedto
acceptdata(input),and
processitinto
usefulinformation(output).
Keptinsecondarystorage(storage)forsafekeepingor
lateruse.
Theprocessingofinputintooutputisdirectedbythe
software,butperformedbythehardware.

Bits&Bytes
Computers are devices powered by electricity, which has
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twodiscretestates:OnorOff.
Twodigitsrepresentthesestates:

Tobeprocessed,alldatainacomputersystem(words,
symbols,pictures,videos,sounds)mustbereducedtoa
stringofbinarydigits.
Abinarydigit1or0iscalledabit,
Eightbitsgroupedtogetherasaunitarecalledabyte,
whichprovidesenoughcombinationsof0sand1sto
represent256individualcharacters,includingnumbers,
upperandlowercasealphabetletters,punctuation
marksandothercharacters
Name

Approx.
Abb
Bytes

ExactBytes

Approx.
Pagesof
Text

Byte

One

One
character

Kilobyte

KB
(or
K)

One
1,024
thousand

Onehalf
page

Megabyte MB

One
million

1,048,576

500pages

Gigabyte

GB

One
billion

1,073,741,824

500,000
pages

Terabyte

TB

One
trillion

1,099,511,627,776

500,000,000
pages

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CodingSchemes
Definethepatternsofbytes
Coding schemes, such as ASCII, EBCDIC, and Unicode,
providethemeanstointeractwithacomputer
When a letter is pressed on a keyboard, the electronic
signals are converted into binary form and stored into
memory.
The computer processes the data as bytes of information
and converts them to the letters we see on the monitor
screenoronaprintedpage.

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HTMLCoding

Terminology
Hardware(H/w)Allmachinery&EquipmentsComputer
&Peripherals
PeripheralsAnypieceofhardwareconnectedtothePC
Software(S/w)programstellstheComputerhowto
performatask
SystemsSoftware(S/w)Formanaginginternal
activities&runapplicationss/wInterpreterbetS/w&
H/w
ApplicationSoftware(S/w)toperformaspecific
taskCustomorPackaged

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