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by Frank Hurvid
BCS Glossary of Computing
Front Cover
Half-Title Page
BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures and tables
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
HOW TO USE THIS GLOSSARY
PART A: OVERVIEW
A1 GENERAL COMPUTING TERMS
Information processing
Parts of a computer system
A2 USING A COMPUTER
System software
Organising data
The size of things
Operation
A3 COMPUTING IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Digital literacy
Basic computer science concepts
Implementing basic computer science
A4 SYSTEMS DESIGN AND LIFE CYCLE
Concepts
Stages
Project management
General
A5 DESCRIBING SYSTEMS
PART B: CONCEPTS
B1 PERSONAL USE OF THE INTERNET
General
Online content
Gathering information online
Online security
B2 THE INTERNET
Accessing the internet
Organising the internet
The world wide web
Other internet applications
Internet problems
B3 DATA HANDLING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
B4 COMMERCIAL DATA PROCESSING (DP)
B5 CONTROL AND MONITORING
Control
Virtual reality
B6 MODELLING AND SIMULATION
B7 NETWORKING
B8 ARTIFICIAL OR MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
B9 COMPUTER PERSONNEL
B10 PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS
B11 COMPUTER SECURITY, ABUSE AND RELATED LAW
Data security
Viruses and malicious code
Copyright
B12 SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
Concepts
Development
Operations
PART C: PROGRAMMING
C1 PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS
Object-oriented techniques
Traditional programming techniques
C2 PROGRAMMING (FLOW OF EXECUTION)
C3 PROGRAMMING (SUBPROGRAMS)
C4 PROGRAM SYNTAX
C5 DESCRIBING PROGRAMS
C6 TESTING AND RUNNING PROGRAMS
C7 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Levels of language
Types of language
Miscellaneous specialised languages
PART D: DATA
D1 DATA REPRESENTATION
Concepts
Structures
Elements
D2 NUMERIC DATA REPRESENTATION
D3 MANAGING DATA FILES
Files
Operations
General
PART E: HARDWARE
E1 TYPES OF COMPUTER
E2 INPUT
Manual input
Automated input
E3 MEMORY
General concepts
Disk
Miscellaneous forms of memory
General
E4 OUTPUT
Colour
Quality
Display
Printing
E5 MACHINE ARCHITECTURE
The processor
Memory
General concepts
Interfaces
Physical components
E6 COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS
E7 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Transmission
Protocols
Signals
E8 TRUTH TABLES AND LOGIC GATES
Binary logic
Gates
PART F: EFFECTIVE USE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
F1 WORD PROCESSING AND TEXT MANIPULATION
Software
Processes
Elements of print
Layout
Styles
F2 SPREADSHEETS
F3 GRAPHICS, DESIGN AND DIGITAL IMAGING
Image data formats
Graphic design applications
Digital still imaging
Digital video
F4 SOUND
Characteristics of sound
Sound processing
Devices
F5 USER INTERFACE AND DOCUMENTATION
Interfaces
Interface concepts
Documentation
F6 SPECIALISED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
PART G: REFERENCE
G1 ACRONYMNS AND ABBREVIATIONS
G2 UNITS
G3 FILENAMES AND FILENAME EXTENSIONS
G4 GEOGRAPHICAL DOMAIN EXTENSIONS
G5 ASCII CODE
Index
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