cscmidterm3

Question 1

hardware

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computers are the physical embodiment of computation

Question 2

software

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programs that instruct the computer needed to implement applications

Question 3

the experience

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hardware and software together, a virtual world that doesn?t exist but we experience

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software stack

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series of layers of programs

Question 5

the oldest form of information technology is

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recorded technology

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transformation

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enhancing/embellishing digital information (photoediting)

Question 7

cration of digital media

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synthetic complexity

Question 8

virtual reality

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simulates the physical world (keypads, gps map)

Question 9

artifical world

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itunes, facebook, twitter, angry birds, product of human imagination

Question 10

problems with artificial worlds

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Privacy concerns, spam, scams,online bullying,stalking

Question 11

data

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digital form of information

Question 12

data is represented as

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bits (usually 0 and 1)

Question 13

Sourced Content

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conent produced for commercial purpose (controlled entirely by organization or person)

Question 14

Social Content

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information created by visitors to the site (social networking)

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we acces digital information access through WWW is stored as

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databases and files

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Algorithm

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precise, systematic method for producing specific result

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Program

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bunch of algorithms that have been specialized to a specific set of conditions

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Abstract

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idea or a process that is extracted from some form of information

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Generalize

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express ab udea that applies to many situations, duh

Question 20

Operationally Attuned

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ability to be boss at what we know about devices to simplify its use

Question 21

Feedback

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is the computer working or still done? Seriously?

Question 22

Consisten Interface

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companies resuse the same code in their applications

Question 23

Clicking Around

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explore an application the application to see what features are available

Question 24

Blazing Away

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trying the application in a different way

Question 25

since info is in 0's and 1's

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we can it digital information since it has two DIGITS! WOW!

Question 26

What is an all at once version of copy/pste

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find/replace

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Metaphor

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an icon or image used as representative or symbolic of a computation

Question 28

first desktop?

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the Alto (70's)

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GUI

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Graphic User Interface

Question 30

what is the metaphor for the computer screen?

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desktop

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Synchronous communication

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when sender and reciever are active at the same time (telephone)

Question 32

Asynchronous

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when sender and reciever are not active at the same time (aint no body got time for that)(email)

Question 33

What are the 3 communication types

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broadcast, multicast, point to point

Question 34

Broadcast Communication

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single sender to many recievers (radio,tv)

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multi-cast

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single sender to specific group

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point to point

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self explanatory-one on one (telephone)

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what kind of communtion does is the internet?

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point to point asynchronous

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Interactions over the internet use

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client server interaction protocol

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IP adress

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Internet protocol, unique adress for each computer connected to the internet

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Domain

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related group of networked computers (.edu)

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DNS

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Domain Name System-translates human readable names into four number IP adress

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If the IP adress is new, the server asks

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an Authoritative Name Server

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TLDs

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Top Level Domains (.edu, .org, .com etc.)

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IP Packet

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INDEPENDENT packets of information, they hold one unit of info and can be sent in any order and path

Question 45

WAN

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Wide Area Network

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LAN

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Local Area Network (ethernet)

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the physical set up for an ethernet network is a wire, optical fiber called

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a channel

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What communication is ethenet?

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broadcast medium for point to point

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2 ways to connect to internet

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ISP and enterprise network

Question 50

ISP

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Internet Service Provider

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Enterprise Network

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connection is to a user of a large organization (school, business)

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WWW

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World Wide Web

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Who is the client/server in web request

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browser is client asking the web server for a web page

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three parts of URL

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Protocol, Domain name, Pathname

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File Structure

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folders contain folders that contain folders that contain folders that contain?.MORE FOLDRES that conatin files