So, Paper 1 ICT.
What do I need to know?
A load of mumbo-jumbo that I'll cram the night before and never use again?
Probably yes, but here it all is anyway.
- DTP (Desktop Publishing)
- Databases
- Input devices (keyboard, mouse...etc)
- Output devices (screen, printer...etc)
- Barcodes (first two digits are country, next five are manufacturer, next five are product code, last one is check)
- Spreadsheets
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition, used for passport applications)
- OMR (Optical Mark Recognition, used for lottery tickets)
- MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, used for bank cheques)
- LAN (Local Area Network, Intranet)
- WAN (Wide Area Network, WWW.)
- Security (locking doors, user-names and passwords, alarm systems, firewalls, anti-virus software...etc)
- GUI (Graphical User Interface)
- Health and Safety
- RAM (Random Access Memory)
- ROM (Read Only Memory)
All that is just one side of paper. There's at least another side to go... bear with me!
- CPU (Central Processing Unit)
- Types of computers (mainframe, micro, laptop, PDA)
- Embedded systems (microwaves, guided missile)
- Cache (temporary storage)
- Printers (laser printers are expensive but efficient, while inkjet are cheap but guzzle ink)
- CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture)
- Key fields (on databases, unique and identifiable)
- Operating system (controls running of software)
- WIMP (Windows Icons Menus Pointers)
- HCI (Human Computer Interface, such as keyboard)
And thissss....
... is the brilliant little website that's gonna help me remember all of it.
Woooooo. So glad that's over.
I'm off to chillax ;) x
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