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What is IT?
1st Unit to Coding
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Information Technology? | Is a system concerned with the processing, storage, and transfer of information. |
| Data? | Is facts waiting to be analyzed for information. |
| Information? | Is organized data from which conclusions and answers can be drawn by words, numbers, pictures, sounds, video, graphs. |
| Knowledge? | Is what you learn when you analyze information from different data sources. |
| IT system? | Is a combination of hardware, software, databases, networking, telecommunications, and procedures. |
| Types of IT systems? | Computer, PDA, Grocery Self-Checkout, and a Robot that performs or collects data. |
| What do computers run on and when are electric circuits are open or closed? | They run on electricity and 0 means on and 1 means off. |
| ASCII? | American Standard Code for Information Interchange. |
| How many characters are in ASCII? | 128 till it later on expanded to 256. |
| Binary? | Counting with only 2 digits. 0-1. |
| Decimal? | Counting with only 10 digits. 0-9. |
| Hexadecimal? | Counting with 16 digits. 0-9 and A-F. |
| Systems Development Life Cycle? | Planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. |
| How to analyze the problem? | First understand the problem or opportunity, then define the project scope and constraints, next perform fact finding by analyzing organization charts. |