How A Computer Works
1 Overview of this Unit.
This unit is designed for you to work towards the following strands of your progress ladder:
Data & Data Representation
- Knows that digital computers use binary to represent all data.
- Performs conversion between decimal integers to binary and vice versa.
- Performs simple binary addition.
Hardware & Processing
- Recognises and understands the function of the main internal parts of basic computer architecture.
- Understands the concepts behind the fetch-execute cycle.
- Understands how logic gates work and their applications in computers.
- Understands computers have different storage mediums.
Programming & Development
- Develop skills to implement logic gates and simple adders using Python programming language.