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What is IT?
1st Unit to Coding
Question | Answer |
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Information Technology? | Is a system concerned with the processing, storage, and transfer of information. |
Data? | Is facts waiting to be analyzed for information. |
Information? | Is organized data from which conclusions and answers can be drawn by words, numbers, pictures, sounds, video, graphs. |
Knowledge? | Is what you learn when you analyze information from different data sources. |
IT system? | Is a combination of hardware, software, databases, networking, telecommunications, and procedures. |
Types of IT systems? | Computer, PDA, Grocery Self-Checkout, and a Robot that performs or collects data. |
What do computers run on and when are electric circuits are open or closed? | They run on electricity and 0 means on and 1 means off. |
ASCII? | American Standard Code for Information Interchange. |
How many characters are in ASCII? | 128 till it later on expanded to 256. |
Binary? | Counting with only 2 digits. 0-1. |
Decimal? | Counting with only 10 digits. 0-9. |
Hexadecimal? | Counting with 16 digits. 0-9 and A-F. |
Systems Development Life Cycle? | Planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. |
How to analyze the problem? | First understand the problem or opportunity, then define the project scope and constraints, next perform fact finding by analyzing organization charts. |