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Decks in this class (14)

Components of a computer (unit 1) (finished)
11 what is a cpu,
11 what are some of the component...,
11 what does the control unit do
68  cards
Systems Software (unit 2) (Finished)
21 what is an operating system,
What functions does the os provide,
What is a user interface
62  cards
Software development (Unit 3) (Finished)
31 what are the stages of softwar...,
What happens in the analysis stage,
What is the output of analysis
53  cards
Data Exchange (unit 4) (finished)
Lossy compression,
Lossless compression,
Run length encoding
59  cards
Networks (Unit 5) (Finished)
51 what is the largest network in...,
51 what is an ip,
51 what is a mac address
81  cards
Data types (unit 6) (Finished)
61 what is a primitive data type,
What are some examples of primati...,
Why are data types important
56  cards
Data Structures (unit 7) (Finished)
What is an array,
What is a 2d array,
72 what is a queue
69  cards
Boolean algebra (unit 8) (Finished)
81 what are computers made of,
How can switches in computers be ...,
What is a logic gate
32  cards
Legal and cultural issues (unit 9) (Not finished)
91 why are there laws in computing,
What are the big 4 computing acts,
What is the data protection act 1998
18  cards
Computational thinking (unit 10) (Finished)
101 what is computational thinking,
What is abstraction,
How can abstraction be applied to...
55  cards
Programming techniques (unit 11) (not finished)
What is an ide,
What features does an ide have,
C
25  cards
Paper structure (?)
Paper 1,
Paper 2,
Topics covered
4  cards
Topics
Unit 1,
Unit 2,
Unit 3
13  cards
Paper 2 advanced information flashcards
211what is abstraction,
211what is the need for abstraction,
212what is caching
23  cards

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