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Topic 1a : Structures and Links (Databases)
A database is a,
Databases are made up of,
A field stores
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Topic 1b: Structures and links (Websites)
A website is a,
A webpage is an,
Url stands for
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Topic 2: User Interface
Target audience is,
User interface is,
When designing a user interface y...
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Topic 3: Purpose, Features and Functionality
Purpose is the,
Main features of a piece of softw...,
Functionality is the number of
11
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Topic 4: Multimedia and Media Types
Multimedia is the,
Multimedia software is software t...,
Once a multimedia application is ...
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Topic 5: Computer Hardware and Software
Hardware is,
Software is,
Operating system is
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Topic 6: Storage Devices
The three main categories of stor...,
Built in storage device means the...,
External storage device means the...
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Topic 7: Networking and Connectivity
Computers can be described as,
Stand alone computers are,
Networked computers are
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Topic 8: Security Risks and Precautions
Networks can be structured as,
A peer to peer network is used for,
Advantages of a peer to peer netw...
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Topic 9: Computer Security
Identity theft is a crime where c...,
A keylogger is a type of,
Online fraud is the use of
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Topic 10: Legal Implications
The computer misuse act makes it ...,
The data protection act was passe...,
The data protection act states that
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Topic 11: Health and Safety
There are a number of health prob...,
These health problems can be avoi...,
Eyestrain can be avoided by
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Topic 12: Environmental Impact
Carbon footprint measures the amo...,
Computers can help reduce carbon ...,
An example of computers making eq...
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Topic 13: Low Level Operations (Representing Text and Whole Numbers)
Binary means,
What are the three reasons comput...,
What does it mean by computers be...
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Topic 14: Low Level Operations (Representing Real Numbers and Graphics)
Real numbers are stored using,
When storing very large numbers s...,
Mantissa indicates the
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Topic 15: Basic Computer Architecture
The processor is the part of the ...,
Alu is part of the core processin...,
The control unit sends out contro...
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Top 16: Data Types and Structures
A variable is a,
When declaring a variable creates a,
To declare a variable we must
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Topic 17a: Design, Testing and Documenting Solutions
There are 3 forms of design metho...,
A text editor is an,
Some special features of text edi...
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Topic 17b: Design, Testing and Documenting Solutions
Program errors fall into 3 catego...,
Syntax errors occur as a result of,
Execution errors are errors that
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Topic 18: Comparing Programming languages
Web page allows the programer to,
An example of programming languag...,
Scripting allows the programmer to
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