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A P T
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CO M O GY
N O L
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
EVOLUTIONS
OF COM
Microprocessor
Integrated Circuit
Artificial
Intelligence
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FIRST GENERATION (1940–56)—VACUUM
TUBES
• Used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, the input was based on
punched cards and paper tape and the output was in the form of printouts.
• Relied on binary-coded language, which is also known as the machine language (i.e. language
of 0s and 1s), to perform operations and were able to solve only one problem at a time.
• Since thousands of vacuum tubes were used, they generated a large amount of heat.
• They were very expensive to operate and used a large amount of electricity.
• Since machine language was used, these computers were difficult to program and use.
•Computers became smaller, faster, cheaper, energy-efficient and more reliable than their
predecessors.
•Magnetic cores were used as primary memory and magnetic disks as secondary storage devices,
but they still relied on punched cards for input and printouts for output.
•Assembly language used mnemonics (abbreviations) for instructions rather than numbers; for
example, ADD for addition and MULT for multiplication. As a result, programming became less
cumbersome.
•Early high-level programming languages such as COBOL and FORTRAN also came into
• This allowed the device to run many different applications at one time with a central
program that monitored the memory.
• Application software
• System software is essential for a computer to function. However, application
software is the additional software that the users choose according to their
needs. Example: Word Processing (Microsoft Word) and Spreadsheet
Software (Microsoft Excel).
OPERATING SYSTEM: DEFINITION
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SEARCHING TOOLS
• Keyword search
• Keyword searching is the process of searching electronically stored evidence
using any specified word, or combination of words with the intent of locating and
identifying potential evidence.
• Directory / Index Search
• Such as Yahoo Directory, is a catalog of websites organized by category to allow
users to easily browse for the information they need.
• Metasearch engines
• A meta search engine is a type of search engine that gives results based on a
combination of results from other search engine databases.(www.dogpile.com)
• Specialized search engines
• Specialized search engines index pages for particular topics only and very often
there are many pages that cannot be found in general-purpose search engines but
only in specialized ones.
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IMPORTANCE OF LIFE-LONG LEARNING AND
CONTINUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO AN
IT PROFESSIONAL
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IMPORTANCE OF A LIFE-LONG
LEARNING TO IT PROFESSIONAL
• To enhance knowledge in order to meet the current
environment.
• IT always change and it information always fresh.
• To adapt a new technology/finding/outcome on the IT based
application.
• To solve a current problem with the newest technology.
THANK YOU
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