CIS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Embedded System, Mainframe Computer, Temporary File

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Zoe Zhu

Document Summary

Quick response codes: 2d barcodes that give you much more information than a 1d barcode (one that would be on a receipt). Used for marketing campaigns to provide links to websites and/or particular products. Kickstarter: a crowdfunding platform that allows people with ideas to ask for funding to pursue them (inventions, games, etc. ) Autonomy: the freedom to work without constant directions and control. Mastery: the feeling of confidence and excitement from seeing your own skills progress. Purpose: the understanding that you are working for something larger than yourself. Being computer literate means, being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabilities and limitations, and you know how to use them safely and efficiently. This suggests you know more than simply the parts of a computer. Computer: a data processing device that performs four major functions: input, processing, output, and storage. Computers work in the language of binary, which consists completely of 0s and 1s.