GCSE Concepts - 101 Computing

MS-DOS Emulator

Administrator — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:19:50 +0000

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an early operating system developed by Microsoft in the early 1980s. It was widely used on IBM-compatible personal computers and is known for its command-line interface, where users type commands to perform tasks rather…

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Storage Devices: The Technologies Behind Your Data

Administrator — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:00:18 +0000

In this lesson we will investigate the three main technologies used by the different storage devices in a computer system: Optical storage devices such as CD, DVDs and Blurays Magnetic storage devices such as the Hard-Disk Drive (HDD), floppy disks…

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Space Explorer: The Way Back Home

Administrator — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:56:32 +0000

You are onboard a spaceship lost in a distant galaxy, far far away from planet Earth. Your aim is to return to planet Earth by using teleportation gates (black holes) to jump from one galaxy to another until you can…

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Storage Units Conversions – Quiz

Administrator — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:45:42 +0000

The following diagram is a quick recap of the main storage units used to estimate the size of a file or the storage capacity of a storing device. Take the Quiz! (open full screen)

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The Environmental Impacts of Computer Science

Administrator — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:50:37 +0000

This post is part of series of blog posts investigating different ethical, environmental and legal impacts of Computer Science in today’s world.

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Structure Diagram for an online-shop

Administrator — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:34:56 +0000

An online-shop or e-commerce website is a complex web-based system that includes many functionalities. In order to design such a complex system. it is essential to think think abstractly to simplify the system we want to create and to break…

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Abstraction, Decomposition and Structure Diagrams

Administrator — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:02:31 +0000

Any software developer, working on a new project will need to take time to step back and think before going straight into programming mode and writing their first line of code! Their first step will be to consider their new…

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OCR – J277 – Computer Science GCSE

Administrator — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:31:17 +0000

Extra Revision Resources…

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UK Legislation relevant to Computer Science

Administrator — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:00:14 +0000

As a computer scientist, you need to be aware of the legislation that is relevant to the use of Computer Science related technologies. Whether you are designing a new website, creating a computer program or system or just using a…

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Types of Software

Administrator — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:33:12 +0000

A computer system is made of both hardware and software. The hardware components of a computer systems are the physical components of the system and include the motherboard, the CPU, RAM and ROM and all input, output and output devices.…

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