LBSC 690	Fall 98		Midterm Review

"Seven" uses of the Internet
- Web Pages
  o how to read a URL
  o How to find a web page
    + Alta Vista
    + Yahoo
- Telnet
  o VT-100
- FTP
  o anonymous FTP
- Email
  o How to read an email address
  o MIME attachments
- USENET News
- Talk
- IRC

Hardware
- CPU
  o Bus
- Memory
  o Cache, RAM, ROM
  o Floppy Disk
  o Hard Disk
  o CDROM
  o Tape Backup
- Communications
  o MODEMs
  o LAN
    + Ethernet
  o WAN
    + Routers

Matching speeds using cache
- CPU
- Cache
- Memory
- Disk
- Network

Software
- Operating systems
- Programming languages
- Application software
- Embedded software

Document Creation
- Editors
  o ASCII 
    - Advantages and limitations
- Word Processors
- Structured documents
  o Email
  o HTML
    + Style

Document retrieval
- Frequent terms
- Selective terms

Spreadsheets
- Uses
- Layout
- Style
- How to use Excel

Databases
- Uses
- Types (flat files, relational)
- Why split tables
  o Functional relationship
    + Redundancy and consistency
- Relational design
  o Restrict
  o Project
  o Join
- How to use Access

Programming
- Overview
  o Special purpose languages
  o Model building
- History
  o Machine code
  o Assembly language
  o High Level Language (FORTRAN)
  o Structured programming (C) 
  o Object oriented programming (Java)
- Program design
  o Variables
  o Operators
  o Statements
  o Control flow (sequential, conditional, loop)
  o Methods
  o Classes
  o Objects
    + Instantiation
  o Compilation
    + Architecture independence
    + Bytecode
  o Buy vs. rent
- Project Management
  o The mythical man-month

Images
-  Lossless vs. lossy compression
-  GIF vs. JPEG
-  MPEG

Audio
- Compression: Music vs. voice

Transmission
- MIME
- Streaming audio and video

Virtual reality