CIS 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 86 pages long!)

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

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Social networking tools: facebook and twitter give people the power to connect and share ideas, bring people together especially in the middle east and north. Inside your computer tower, or just underneath the keyboard of your laptop iis your motherboard, cpu, ram, graphics card, hard drives, optical drive, and ports to connect peripherals. Gene (an ibm project) used 131,000 processors to routinely handle 280 trillion operations every second: embedded computers: touch our everyday lives in devices ranging from cameras, digital recorders and the electronic thermostat in your home and car. If you play web-based or casual games, the integrated graphics card that"s built into your pc"s motherboard or processor will suffice. If you play action games like modern warfare, step up to a mid- level or better standalone graphics card. These sockets will be compatible with certain kinds of cpu"s, generally intel or.