Short Course GCSE ICTPayne Gallway, 2004 M09 15 - 192 pages Covers the essential theory needed by students following a short course specification in BCSE Information Communication Technology (ICT). The text provides in particular comprehensive coverage of the AQA Specifications A short course. |
Contents
Computer systems | 1 |
Manual input methods | 10 |
Direct input methods | 22 |
Data storage | 31 |
Output devices | 41 |
Application software | 48 |
Data handling | 56 |
Collecting and checking data | 74 |
Computer graphics | 110 |
Desk Top Publishing | 122 |
Web design | 133 |
Computer models | 140 |
Computer control | 147 |
The Internet | 159 |
Computer crime | 166 |
Data protection | 174 |
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