Review for First Exam

You should know the following concepts and terms:

General background

• hardware/software
• monitor, keyboard, input, output
• CPU, processor
• memory, hard drive, floppy drive, RAM, diskette
• program, operating system, application program
• bits, bytes, KB, MB, GB
• ASCII text, binary

Windows

• desktop, window, icon, title bar, menu bar
• control menu bar, minimize, maximize, restore, scroll bars
• point, click, double click, drag, dialog box

Internet

• LAN, WAN
• ARPANET, internetwork
• IP address, DNS name
• Domain Name System
• TCP/IP software, RFC
• packet switching, IP datagram, IP address
• email, mailing lists, email viruses
• communication protocol
• routers

History of Computer Science

You should be familiar with the contributions of these people:
• Pascal
• Jacquard
• Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing
• Grace Hopper
• Hollerith
• Ritchie and Thompson

Searching for Information

• search engines, subject directories, meta-search engines
• spider, index
• AND and OR
• TITLE: and URL:

Web pages and HTML

• URL, home page
• browser, hypertext
• HTML tags: HTML, HEAD, BODY, title, underline, italics, boldface, paragraph, line break, headings, ordered and unordered lists
• links <A HREF....>..</A> , IMG, changing colors of background, text and links //-->

Software

• algorithm
• compiler
• machine language, high level language