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Fundamentals Of Computer System
A computer – is a data processing machine or a machine for the manipulation of symbols. These “Symbols” Represents “INFORMATION” for various kinds.
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Table of contents
I. DATA and INFORMATION 1
a. Data in the computer 1
b. Steps in Data Operations 1
c. FORMAL versus INFORMAL INFORMATION 2
d. Information Attributes 3
II. What is a computer? 3
a. Classes of computers 4
b. Generation of computers 4
c. Mode of processing 5
d. Types of Digital Computers 4
e. Capabilities & Limitation of computers 5
f. Uses of computers 6-7
III. Overviews of computers
a. Distinguishing Characteristics of a computer 7-9
IV. PRINCIPLES OF NUMBERING SYSTEMS 10
a. Number System TERMS 10
b. Binary coding methods 11
c. Integer, Decimal and exponential constant 11-12
d. String Constant and Variables 13-
e. Arithmetic Operation and Expressions 13-14
f. The LET Statement 15-16
Preview of the essay: Fundamentals Of Computer System
FORMAL versus INFORMAL INFORMATION:Formal Information systems–are based on the supposition that we can identify individual’s information requirements and that we can also determine the methods of producing information from data to satisfy these requirements.
Examples of formal information include:
Legal requirements, government legislation, union contracts, accounting procedures, planning requirements, organizational budgets, job demands, communication requirements, control needs, stockholders and creditor demands, problem solutions, and general decision-making processes, paychecks, invoices, purchase orders, and receiving tickets and all examples of structured forms of formal information. In Contrast,
Examples of informal information include:
Opinions, judgments, hunches, intuitions, hearsay, personal experiences, “grapevines,” “rules of thumb,” gossip, assumptions, and so forth.
Both types of information may be essential to the management and operation of an organization, but formal information is the only valid output
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... Programming are not designed to take roots of negative numbers. For example, the cube root of – 8 is – 2, but the programming expression (–8)^(1/3) will not give this value. Programming expressions such as A^B will result in an error if A is negative and B is not an integer.
4. The LET Statement: Assigning Values to Variables
In section 3.3 you learned how to write arithmetic expressions in a form acceptable to the computer. Now we will show you how to instruct the computer to evaluate such expressions.
A programming line consists of an instruction to the computer
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