CSCI2467 - L07: Systems Basics - Data = Bits + Context

CSCI2467 - Systems Programming Concepts (2024)
Lecture 07: Systems Basics - Data = Bytes + Context

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Overview:
- Simplifying the Magic of Computers
● Computers are Electronic Machines
● Computers are NOT Mechanical Machines
● Binary & Switches
● Bits & Binary Language
● Bits & Bytes

- Representing Data in Bytes
● Numbers as Bytes
● Text as Bytes
● Images as Bytes
● Sound as Bytes
● Code as Bytes
● All Data is Numerical
● Bits + Context = Data

- Information Storage
● Hexadecimal notation
● Data Sizes
● Addressing & Byte Ordering