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Domain Hacks: A domain hack is where you shorten a web address in a clever way, pr where you spell
sth catchy or easy to remember with a Top Level Domain (TLD)

skydrive.live.com --> sdrv.ms (Montserrat)
Delicious --> del.icio.us (United States of America)
Instagram --> Instagr.am (Armenia)
Google --> Goo.gl (Green Land)
YouTube --> youtu.be (Belgium)
Google --> g.co (Colombia)
Tweeter -- > t.co (Colombia)
za.ch (Switzerland)
kop.rs (Serbia)

Am.ly (Libya)
Mi.ki (Kiribati)

Section 5 - Data Types
Questions A, B
Test Yourself, Revision Questions
Due October 20th

Data Types
Logical/Boolean - Yes/No; 1/0; On/Off; True/False
Numbers - 3.45, 17, 003000
Alpha Numeric - Numbers, Symbols, and Letters
!@#$%^&*()_1234899ABCSDEF
Date -October 12, 2012; 10?12/12; 12/10/12; 12/10/2012
Cost - $25
Times - 12:00 p, 23:07
Grades - A*, F

File: a collection of related records. A list of this class is called a record. A list of all classes in Yew Wah
is called a file.

Record: all the date related to a single thing or person. A record dis made up of fields. Name, Age, Sex.
Date of Birth, Grade, Student ID number.

Field: a single item of data

Data: is a fact about something

Information: data with meaning (data is raw info, data is pointless and confusing without meaning)

Key Field: a piece of data which everyone has in common, but which is unique to each person. Student
ID number. Phone number. Passport. National ID Number. Social Security Number

I own a computer company. I need to keep track of my sales, my customers, and my product.
Flat-File Database: 1 Excel document which has all of this information
Relational Database: 3 Excel spreadsheets (one for each topic) which are connected together

Linking Files: To link files means to have two different files (records) which share the same information
(Data and meaning) when we link these files(records), any changes add to one file (record) is changed
also on the linked file. Forming relationships between files. (records.)

Digital-Analogue Converters (DAC)
digital signals are used by the computer. They can be expressed using a logical/Boolean language, like 1
and 0. They have a very limited number of choices in terms of stepping.

Analogue signal are used by computer speakers. They have infinite number of choices in terms of
stepping.

Sampling: the rate which a computer decides which number to apply to something.
Music Sampling: how many times per second a computer digitizes a sound. Each time a sample
is taken, the DAC take the volume , tone, tempo, beat, key and turns it into binary, 128 kbps was
sampled 128,000 times a second. The higher the bit rate, the better the digital quality the music.
Picture Sampling: the visible light spectrum has an infinite number of color choices, sampling in
a picture is where a computer signs a number to a color. Computer must assign a number to a color to
each choice. Therefore, a computer must have finite number of choices. The more color choices a DAC
makes the more natural the colors look, and the better the photograph. The number of dots which a
computer breaks up a photo(sampling) is expressed in mega-pixels, or millions of total pixels. 2mp
photo is lower quality than a 20mp photo.