Chaters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 in the Computers Are Your Future text

Lecture Notes
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Labs 1 - 3 including the tutorials
Read the lab manual for review, some question will be taken straight from the manual.
The answers to the tutorials: click here

Terms
Study the Techno Wordsweb site. These are some terms you should know: ARPANet, ASCII, Bit, bookmark, Browser, Client, Cyberspace, Cookie, Download, Domain Name, file, folder, FTP, GUI, HTML, HTTP, Hypertext, hyperlink, homepage, Internet, Java, LAN, Login, Multitasking, Network, Node, Path, Protocol, Server, TCP/IP, Telnet, URL, WAN, WWW
Review quiz answers

Quizzes
The answers are linked on the quiz outline page.

No Microsoft Word questions will be on the test

Intro to Computer Concepts
Multitasking
File names and File extensions
Illegal characters in file names and folders name. Know which characters are illegal.
My Computer vs Explorer (what I said was the advantage of one)
Taskbar
Icons
Using Windows Explorer
Types of files
Navigation
Recycle bin
Analog vs Digital data
Software, Hardware
Operating System

Hierarchial Folders and Paths
Root directory -definition and the paragraph desccribing it.
Folder and subfolder
Files
Paths
Windows Explorer
Search
Lab manual on Saving
Lab manual Anatomy of a Window
'Save As' vs 'Save' Lab Manual
Creating folders, copying/moving folders, moving/deleting folders.
Illegal file name characters and what a path to a file should look like.

Concepts of Computers
Chapter 1, and lecture notes
Units of Measurements MB, GB
John Von Neumann, a computer architect that designed the architecture that PC's are based on today.
Types of Computers
What a computer is
Input, processing, output, storage, communication
Ethics in computing

The Internet 
Chapter 7
What is the Internet
Information Services vs Inernet Service Providers (ISP)
Direct Network Connections
Lan
Arpanet
Client vs Server
Domain Names
Urls
Addresses
WWW
How data travels
TCP /IP and other protocols
Viruses
Spyware
Search engines
Downloading vs Uploading (FTP)
Terminal Emulation Mode (telnet)
Browsers and plugins
Intranets
Firewalls
routers
Internet hardware

Know what each of the following do and are used for:
Plugins
VRML
REAL AUDIO
FLASH/Macromedia stuff
CGI
Applets
Server Side programming

System unit 
chapter 4
Basic units of memory
Binary digits: on/off bits,
Bytes
RAM
ROM - booting a computer
Where the computer looks for an operating system first(floppy drive).
Cache- know this.
The Processor
The motherboard
Parts of the Processor (ALU, Control Unit, Registers)
System clock
ASCII and Unicode
Instruction cycle - fetch, decode
Execution cycle - execute, write back

Parts of a Computer / Buying a Computer
desktop vs laptop
MHz vs GHz
CPU
Memory - RAM, Cache
Bus
Hard Drive sizes and speed
Expansion bays
video and sound cards
network connections
Ports / connections
USB, firwire, CD, DVD
Peripheral Devices - printers, monitors, keyboards, mouse
Upgrading

Software
Chapter 2, 3
System softare
Operating System - roles
Steps in booting up the computer
System utilities
Drivers
Application Softaware
problems with software
common features in software
Virtual Memory
Freeware, shareware, Commercial ware, Beta, Warez
Plug and play
Versions vs Releases
Site Licenses