COMP 1 Revision Flash Cards

What is Computing?

What is computation

What is Computability

What is Abstraction

What is Automation

Do you know about Heirarchy charts?

Do you know what each different shape in a flow chart means?

What is a Fixed Value?

What is a stepper?

Give 3 examples of Selection Statements

Give an example of an Iterative Statement

What is an Assignment Statement

What is a presence Check?

What is a Format check?

What is a range check?

What is a file look-up check?

What is a Length Check?

What is Validation?

What is a Compilation Error?

What is a Run-Time error?

What is a Logic Error?

How do you code a bubble sort?

How do you make a binary number negative?

What is the easiest way to do binary subtraction?

If the denary system is this:
100, 10, 1 . 1/10, 1/100

What does the Binary System look like?

What does ASCII stand for?

How many bits does ASCII use to represent a character?

How many bits does Unicode use to represent characters and why?

Explain how Parity works

What is majority vote and its advantages and disadvantages.

How does Hamming Code know which bit has been corrupted in a piece of data.

What is Hamming code used for?

What does ADC stand for?

What is sampling?

What is sampling rate?

What is sampling Resolution

What is Nyquist's Theorem

Explain Bitmapped Images

What is screen resolution

What is image resolution

What is colour depth

Explain Vector Graphics

Name the Advantages of Bitmaps

Name the advantages of Vector graphics

What is Run Length Encoding ( RLE )

What is Lossy Compression?

What is a Finite State Machine (FSM)