Free Educational Resources from Mr. Noureddine Tadjerout
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I am a versatile professional with a diverse skill set and a strong background in education and technology. As an accomplished Author, Teacher Trainer, Examiner, and certified Apple Teacher and VEX Robotics. I have honed my expertise in Computer Science and Mathematics education. Additionally, I hold the role of Curriculum Development Specialist, focusing on Computer Science, Engineering, and Microsoft Office. I am passionate about creating educational resources and assisting fellow educators.
I am a versatile professional with a diverse skill set and a strong background in education and technology. As an accomplished Author, Teacher Trainer, Examiner, and certified Apple Teacher and VEX Robotics. I have honed my expertise in Computer Science and Mathematics education. Additionally, I hold the role of Curriculum Development Specialist, focusing on Computer Science, Engineering, and Microsoft Office. I am passionate about creating educational resources and assisting fellow educators.
Show understanding of the difference between: primary, secondary and off-line storage and provide examples of each, such as:
Primary: Read Only Memory (ROM) and Random Access Memory (RAM)
Secondary: hard disk drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD); off-line: Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), Compact Disc (CD), Blu-ray disc, USB flash memory and removable HDD
Describe the principles of operation of a range of types of storage device and media including magnetic, optical and solid state.
Describe how these principles are applied to currently available storage solutions, such as SSDs, HDDs, USB flash memory, DVDs, CDs and Blu-ray discs.
Calculate the storage requirement of a file.
Declare and use one-dimensional arrays, for example: A[1:n]
Show understanding of the use of one-dimensional arrays, including the use of a variable as an index in an array
Read or write values in an array using a FOR … TO … NEXT loop
Objective:
•Understand the use of the different operators in Python.
•Explain What is an algorithm, Pseudocode and Flowchart?
•Understand the following terms, (IF , ELSE & ELIF)
Outcomes:
Explain the use of an IF and Else statement
Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
Define hardware, giving examples
Define software, giving examples
Describe the difference between hardware and software
Identify the main components of a general-purpose computer: central processing unit, main/internal memory (including ROM and RAM), input devices, output devices and secondary/backing storage
Identify operating systems, including those which contain a graphical user interface, a command line interface
Identify different types of computer including Personal Computer or desktop, mainframe, laptop, palmtop and Personal Digital Assistant
Describe recent developments in ICT
How do I open the case?
What is the process to install the power supply?
How do I attach the components to the motherboard and install the motherboard?
How do I install internal drives?
How do I install drives in external bays?
How do I install adapter cards?
What is the process to connect all internal cables?
How do I reattach the side panels and connect external cables to the computer?
What happens when I boot the computer for the first time
This HTML Beginner’s Guide assumes that you have no previous knowledge of HTML.
It should be quite easy to follow if you work through each step, which are all brought together at the end of this lesson.
Show understanding of the need for input, output, primary memory and secondary (including removable) storage.Describe the principal operations of hardware devices Show understanding of the use of buffersExplain the differences between Random Access Memory (RAM) and Read Only Memory (ROM)Explain the differences between Static RAM (SRAM) and Dynamic RAM (DRAM)Explain the difference between Programmable ROM (PROM), Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM) and Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM)Show an understanding of monitoring and control systems
Candidates should be able to:Use the following logic gate symbols:
Understand and define the functions of: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR and XOR (EOR) gatesConstruct a logic circuitConstruct a truth tableConstruct a logic expression
Chapter 7: Ethics and Ownership
7.1 Legal, Moral, Ethical and Cultural implication
7.2 Copyright issues
7.3 Artificial Intelligence
Show understanding of the need for and purpose of ethics as a computing professional
Understand the importance of joining a professional ethical body including BCS (British Computer Society), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).
Show understanding of the need to act ethically and the impact of acting ethically or unethically for a given situation.
Show understanding of the need for copyright legislation
Show understanding of the different types of software licensing and justify the use of a license for a given situation.
Licenses to include free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, shareware and commercial software.Show understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Understand the impact of AI including social, economic and environmental issues
Understand the applications of AI
Show understanding that every computer system is made up of sub-systems, which in turn are made up of further sub-systems
Use top-down design, structure diagrams, flowcharts, pseudocode, library routines and sub-routines
Work out the purpose of a given algorithm
Explain standard methods of solution
Suggest and apply suitable test data
Understand the need for validation and verification checks to be made on input data (validation could include range checks, length checks, type checks and check digits)
Use trace tables to find the value of variables at each step in an algorithm
Identify errors in given algorithms and suggest ways of removing these errors
Produce an algorithm for a given problem (either in the form of pseudocode or flowchart)
Comment on the effectiveness of a given solution
9.1 Computational Thinking Skills:
Show an understanding of abstraction
Need for and benefits of using abstraction
Describe the purpose of abstraction
Produce an abstract model of a system by only including essential details
Describe and use decomposition
Break down problems into sub-problems leading to the concept of a program module (procedure / function)
9.2 Algorithms:
Show understanding that an algorithm is a solution to a problem expressed as a sequence of defined steps.
Use suitable identifier names for the representation of data used by a problem and represent these using an identifier table
Write pseudocode that contains input, process and output
Write pseudocode using the three basic constructs of sequence, selection and iteration (repetition)
Document a simple algorithm using pseudocode
Write pseudocode from:
a structured English description
a flowchart
Describe and use the process of stepwise refinement to express an algorithm to a level of detail from which the task may be programmed
Use logic statements to define parts of an algorithm solution
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