Computing Revision
Revision notes for Scottish Higher, Intermediate and Standard Grade Computing
Intermediate 2 Computing
Optional Units
What do you need to know? - Artificial Intelligence
Human Intelligence, the Turing Test
Development of game playing progrmas, language processing and expert systems
How hardware developkments have aided AI
Neural networks (ANS) - descriptions, uses, advantages and disadvantages
Applications - description and uses of:
Breadth-first and depth-first search
Semantic nets
Prolog: facts, rules, queries
What do you need to know? - Computer Networking
Internet services - WWW, e-mail, file transfer
Browsers and microbrowsers (WAP)
E-commerce
RIP Act, e-mail and Internet codes of conduct
Network security - physical, passwords, encryption, filtering, backup strategies
Data transmission - unicast, broadcast, multicast
Wireless networking - WPAN, wirelwss LAN, wireless WAN
Internet connection - dialup modem, ADSL, cable modem, leased line, ISDN
What do you need to know? - Multimedia Technology
Application of software development process to MM
Creation of MM application - editors, authoring software, presentation software
Bit-mapped graphics - hardware, file types (GIF, JPEG), compression, resolution, colour depth, editing
Digitised sound - hardware, file types (RIFF/WAV, MP3), compression, sampling depth & frequency, editing
Video - hardware, file types (AVI, MPEG), compression, colour depth, resolution and frame rate, editing
Vector graphics - features, attributes, file types (SVG, VRML)
MIDI sound - attributes
Contemporary technologies - smart phones, pocket PCs, digital TV, virtual reality
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