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OBJECTIVES
After completing this class, students will be able to:
- Identify the components on the motherboard
- Explain what the two parts of the CPU do
- Explain how the CPU uses the four steps of a machine cycle to process data
- Define the term, register
- Describe the arithmetic, comparative and logical operations performed by the ALU
- Explain why programmers use binary and hexadecimal numbers
- Describe how a series of bits represents data (coding schemes)
- Define the terms bit, byte and nibble
- Convert numbers between binary, decimal and hexadecimal number systems
- Explain the function of the system clock
- Define pipelining, parallel processing and co-processors
Optional Exercise: Binary Number Exercise
Click on the link above, then chose the Binary Number option.
Click on this link for extra help with binary numbers.
Material is covered in Discovering Computers, pages