Commt101 Unit 1 Study Guide

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Semester 1 MIT101 – Fundamentals of IT & Programming– 2 Credits Assignment Question 1 - Give the classification of computers and explain them briefly ? Ans:- Computers are classified according to their data processing speed, amount of data that they can hold and price. Generally, a computer with high processing speed and large internal storage is called a big computer. Due to rapidly improving technology, we are always confused among the categories of computers. Depending upon their speed and memory size, computers are classified into following four main groups. 1. Supercomputer 2. Mainframe computer 3. Mini computer 4. Microcomputer. Supercomputer Supercomputer is the most powerful and fastest, and…show more content…
A word processor may also refer to a stand-alone computer unit similar to a typewriter, but frequently including technological advancements such as a screen, advanced formatting and printing options, and the ability to save documents onto memory cards or diskettes. Word processors almost invariably allowed the user to choose between standard typing and word processing modes by way of a switch. Such word processors should not be confused with an electric typewriter shows the graphical user interface of the Microsoft Word…show more content…
In most languages grammar is very complex, so grammar checkers tend to be unreliable and also require a large amount of memory. Spreadsheet: Spreadsheet applications are computer programs that let you create and manipulate spreadsheets electronically. A spreadsheet is a table of values arranged in rows and columns. Each value can have a predefined relationship to the other values. If you change one value, therefore, you may need to change other values as well. In a spreadsheet application, each value sits in a cell. You can define what type of data is in each cell and how different cells depend on one another. The relationships between cells are called formulas, and the names of the cells are called labels. Once you have defined the cells and the formulas for linking them together, you can enter your data. You can then modify selected values to see how all the other values change accordingly. This enables you to study various what-if
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