Day: December 16, 2022

4.1                   DEFINITION OF THE TERM: ‘OPERATING SYSTEM’  Operating System as defined earlier, is a set of programs available within  the  system  software  that  standardizes  the  way  a  computer’s resources are made available to the user and to applications software.   Read More …

3.1       BEHAVIOUR IN THE COMPUTER LAB  Computer lab forms a very important section of an organization or school and therefore strict rules in terms of behaviour of personnel/students working/studying in the lab needs to be put in place Read More …

DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATION OF DIVISIONS OF A COMPUTER The following diagram shows the basic physical computer breakdown that will serve as a reference throughout the chapter. KEY: C.P.U      –      Central Processing Unit A.L.U      –      Arithmetic Logic Unit DOS –              Read More …

Before we attempt to define a Computer, there are a number of associated terminologies that the learner needs to know beforehand. These are: Data, Information, and Programs. Data is the name given to facts. For example, in a school, the Read More …

Introduction In this chapter, we shall undertake a case study entitled A school canteen management system. The objective of this case study is to help the students to apply the programming techniques learnt in Form 3 Preamble A school canteen Read More …