Book description
This unrivalled study aid and reference tool is divided into themed sections making it much more than just a list of definitions. It is designed to support those taking computer courses or courses where computers are used, including GCSE, A-Level and 14-19 Functional Skills qualifications, in schools and further education colleges.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- INTRODUCTION
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- HOW TO USE THIS GLOSSARY
- PART A: OVERVIEW
- A1 GENERAL COMPUTING TERMS
- Information processing
- Parts of a computer system
- A2 USING A COMPUTER
- System software
- Organising data
- The size of things
- Operation
- A3 COMPUTING IN EVERYDAY LIFE
- Digital literacy
- Basic computer science concepts
- Implementing basic computer science
- A4 SYSTEMS DESIGN AND LIFE CYCLE
- Concepts
- Stages
- Project management
- General
- A5 DESCRIBING SYSTEMS
- PART B: CONCEPTS
- B1 PERSONAL USE OF THE INTERNET
- General
- Online content
- Gathering information online
- Online security
- B2 THE INTERNET
- Accessing the internet
- Organising the internet
- The world wide web
- Other internet applications
- Internet problems
- B3 DATA HANDLING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
- B4 COMMERCIAL DATA PROCESSING (DP)
- B5 CONTROL AND MONITORING
- Control
- Virtual reality
- B6 MODELLING AND SIMULATION
- B7 NETWORKING
- B8 ARTIFICIAL OR MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
- B9 COMPUTER PERSONNEL
- B10 PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS
- B11 COMPUTER SECURITY, ABUSE AND RELATED LAW
- Data security
- Viruses and malicious code
- Copyright
- B12 SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
- Concepts
- Development
- Operations
- PART C: PROGRAMMING
- C1 PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS
- Object-oriented techniques
- Traditional programming techniques
- C2 PROGRAMMING (FLOW OF EXECUTION)
- C3 PROGRAMMING (SUBPROGRAMS)
- C4 PROGRAM SYNTAX
- C5 DESCRIBING PROGRAMS
- C6 TESTING AND RUNNING PROGRAMS
- C7 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
- Levels of language
- Types of language
- Miscellaneous specialised languages
- PART D: DATA
- D1 DATA REPRESENTATION
- Concepts
- Structures
- Elements
- D2 NUMERIC DATA REPRESENTATION
- D3 MANAGING DATA FILES
- Files
- Operations
- General
- PART E: HARDWARE
- E1 TYPES OF COMPUTER
- E2 INPUT
- Manual input
- Automated input
- E3 MEMORY
- General concepts
- Disk
- Miscellaneous forms of memory
- General
- E4 OUTPUT
- Colour
- Quality
- Display
- Printing
- E5 MACHINE ARCHITECTURE
- The processor
- Memory
- General concepts
- Interfaces
- Physical components
- E6 COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS
- E7 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
- Transmission
- Protocols
- Signals
- E8 TRUTH TABLES AND LOGIC GATES
- Binary logic
- Gates
- PART F: EFFECTIVE USE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
- F1 WORD PROCESSING AND TEXT MANIPULATION
- Software
- Processes
- Elements of print
- Layout
- Styles
- F2 SPREADSHEETS
- F3 GRAPHICS, DESIGN AND DIGITAL IMAGING
- Image data formats
- Graphic design applications
- Digital still imaging
- Digital video
- F4 SOUND
- Characteristics of sound
- Sound processing
- Devices
- F5 USER INTERFACE AND DOCUMENTATION
- Interfaces
- Interface concepts
- Documentation
- F6 SPECIALISED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
- PART G: REFERENCE
- G1 ACRONYMNS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- G2 UNITS
- G3 FILENAMES AND FILENAME EXTENSIONS
- G4 GEOGRAPHICAL DOMAIN EXTENSIONS
- G5 ASCII CODE
- Index
- Back Cover
Product information
- Title: BCS Glossary of Computing, 14th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- ISBN: 9781780173283
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