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Number systems and bases
What is a natural number,
What is an integer,
What is a rational number
14  cards
Chapter 23 - Logic gates
Summarise a not gate,
What are all the logic gates,
Booleon expression for not gate
13  cards
error checking and character sets
What is a parity bit,
How to get an even parity,
How to do an odd parity
31  cards
Image representation - 87 - 91
How can images in computers be st...,
Difference between bitmaps and ve...,
How to calculate
17  cards
Sound representation - 92 - 95
What is analogue signal,
What is digital signal,
What are adcs
30  cards
Encryption and compression - 96 - 99
What is the trade off between whe...,
What does lossy compression involve,
What does lossless compression in...
31  cards
Hardware and software - 100 - 107
Meaning of hardware,
What is software,
Examples of internal and external...
51  cards
Hardware and software - video 104 - 107
What does paradigm mean in a comp...,
What languages are programs group...,
Summarise machine language
29  cards
Internal computer architrcture
What is the cpu,
What is the ram,
What is the alu and what does it do
38  cards
Internal computer arvhitectures
Summarise von neumann architecture,
Summarise the harvard architecture,
Disadvantages of harvard architec...
28  cards
booleon algebra
What is a half adder,
Summarise a full adder,
A 1
17  cards
Binary
What do the 1s and 0s represent i...,
What is the maximum value that ca...,
How to carry out twos complements
12  cards
Databases
Characteristics of serial files,
What are files,
Alternative to a series file
21  cards
Databases
What is a database,
What is an attribute in a database,
Define a primary key
14  cards
floating point form
What is fixed point binary,
Advantages of fixed point,
Disadvantages of fixed point
18  cards
Input output devices
Types of barcodes,
When are 2d barcodes used,
Advantages of laser scanners
45  cards
Networks and the internet
What is a network topology,
What does csma ca stand for,
What does data travel over when w...
44  cards
Networks amd the internet
What is a local area network,
What is a bus topology,
Advantages of bus topologies
31  cards
more paper 2 stuff
A database is stored at an office...,
Explain why the amount of storage...,
Explain why compression is consid...
3  cards
OOP
What is a class,
What is an object,
Examples of classes and objects
3  cards
more paper 1 stuff
How does a hash function contribu...,
Explain how a priority queue can ...,
Discuss the impact of hash collis...
10  cards
Programming - Data structures
What are static data structures,
Features of static data structures,
What is an array
45  cards
data structures 2
How do you test for an empty circ...,
How do you add an item to a prior...,
How do you remove an item from a ...
23  cards
BIG O NOTATION
What is an assignment statement,
What is tractability,
Best to worst functions
33  cards
interrupts
What is an interrupt,
What is polling,
When are interrupts serviced
16  cards
Algorithms
What is recursion,
Characteristics of a recursive su...,
What is the algorithm for an in o...
44  cards
python coding notes
How to find where a character is,
How to remove something from a list,
Different ways to show range
37  cards
Regex and BNF
What is bnf,
Why do we need to use bnf,
::
11  cards
The internet
What is the internet,
When can the internet be used wit...,
What does the internet consist of
46  cards
The internet - Internet security
Explain what the key exchange pro...,
Explain what it means for a ciphe...,
What is a tcp ip protocol
13  cards

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