Important Terminologies

Unprocessed and unformatted facts & figures of objects

Processed and formatted facts & figures of objects

RAJU 10 COLLEGE PENS PROCESS MANUAL COMPUTER RAJU BOUGHT 10 PENS FOR THE COLLEGE.

DATA

INFORMATION

It is a command given to a computer which when executed will give the desired result

SYNTAX

Rules and regulations for writing an instruction

Meaning of the instruction

SEMANTICS
N V N Raju plays football. N V N Football plays Raju.

Syntax Syntax -

Semantics Semantics -

Computer can detect only syntax errors and not semantic errors

Group of instructions written in a proper SEQUENCE, which when executed by a computer will give the desired result.

Program for a trip to GOA

1. Make a list of students 2. Fix up the bus 3. Collect the fare 4. Decide the places to visit 5. Finalize the departure date 6. ---------------7. --------------8. Back home

Computer Program
1. Input A,B 2. Sum = A + B 3. Print Sum 4. ---------------5. ---------------

Group of inter-related programs which together performs a major task and each of the programs does a particular task.

Library Management Software

Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program

This maintains all book details Books issue and receipt Maintains records of all magazines Fine collection Purchase of new books

Physical components of a computer

Add-on cards

Mother board

Memory

Keyboard Mouse PCBs

Means of communication LLL Low Level Language AL Assembly Language HLL High Level Language
BASIC, COBOL, C, C++, JAVA, VISUAL BASIC, etc. Machine Language Binary Language

System software which converts a computer language into machine understandable language

Printf(hello); Printf(Enter a number); Scanf(%d,&num);

Hey! I dont follow u I know only 01010101

High Level Language

Low Level Language

INTERPRETER
Experience of 2 years as translator

COMPILER
Experience of 10 years as translator Dr.Kumar

Mr.Sam

Mr.Chellam

Mr.Chung

Mr.Chellam

Mr.Chung

COMPILER

System software which converts HLL to LLL all the instructions at a time

INTERPRETER
ASSEMBLER

System software which converts HLL to LLL one instruction at a time

System software which converts AL programs to LLL

Instruments or electronic gadgets

Input Devices Output Devices Storage Devices

Processing Devices

Keyboard
Mouse Joystick Lightpen Visual Display Unit (VDU) Printers Plotter

Scanner
Digitizer Voice recogniser Barcode reader Optical character reader others

Speakers
Liquid Crystal Displays(LCD) 7-segment LED displays others

System software which acts as an interface between the user and the hardware of the computer
Egs. DOS, WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX, etc.

Warm booting (ctrl + alt + del) Cold booting

Connecting of 2 or more computers LAN Local Area Network

MAN Metropolitian Area Network

WAN Wide Area Network

summary

Data Information Instruction Program Software Hardware Language Translators Devices Operating System Booting Network

Chapter 1
History of Computers Important Terminologies Characteristics of a computer Era of digital computers Generations of Computer Classification of Computer Computer Applications