EECS 1520 Study Guide - Final Guide: Huffman Coding, Surface Acoustic Wave, Sequential Circuits

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

Document Summary

Software: programs that provide instructions for a computer to execute. Data: information in a form computer"s can use. Applications: using computer to solve specific real-world problems. Miller"s law: you cam only manage 7 pieces of info in short-term memory at a time. Augusta lovelace: 1st programmer; invented the concept of the loop. 2nd generation (-1965): transistor; fast, small, cheap, magnetic cores; can store 1 bit of info, magnetic disks; can access data directly, high-level language (english-like statements, applications programmers used tools written by system programmers to write programs. 3rd generation (-1971): integrated circuits; replaced circuit boards, transistors; used for memory construction, terminal; input/output device, systems software (utility programs, translators, and os) 4th generation (to now): large-scale integration (microchips, pcs, structured programming (pascal, c, c++, new application software (spreadsheets, word processors , structured programming was a local, disciplined approach to programming. Networking: small computers connected and sharing resources.