EECS 1520 Chapter Notes -Konrad Zuse, Vacuum Tube, Punched Card

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Computing system: dynamic entity used to solve problems and interact with its environment. Computer hardware: collection of physical elements that make up the machine. Computer software: collection of programs that provide instructions. Information: how we represent information on a computer using binary digits. (ch2,3) Hardware: physical hardware of a computer system that keeps the flow of electricity (4,5) Programming: uses software instructions used to complete computations. (6-9) Applications: help take advantage of the computer"s abilities in other areas. (12-14) Communications: use technology to communicate through computers (15, 16) File: a name collection of related data made from 0 and 1. File system: operating systems logical views of files it manages. Text-file: a file where the bytes of data are organized as characters from unicode. Binary: a file that contains data in specific format, requiring interpretation. Processing data: read, write, remove and add data. Direct access: files are accessed in a logical order.