Daniel Mantilla

Análisis y diseño de sistemas

1. Programming: The ordering of sequential instructions to a machine in
order to perform a specific task or behavior.

2. Computer: A set of hardware components put together in a specific

framework to allow us to perform mathematical operations at very high
speeds.

3. Software: A computer program.

4. Hardware: A physical component of a computer.

5. Protocol: A set of rules that indicates how to proceed in order to solve a

problem

6. Web browser: A computer program which allows you to navigate the web.

7. Malware: A malicious computer software intended to benefit it’s creator

through the exploitation of the machine it is installed on.

8. Firewall: A piece of computer software or hardware that restricts the data

that is allowed to flow through.

9. Algorithm: A set of instructions designed to systematically solve a particular

problem.

10. Bug: A part of a software that fails and doesn’t work as it should.

11. Bit: The smallest unit of measurement in computing.

12. Variable: A piece of data allocated in a specific place in the computer’s

memory.

13. Array: A set of variables.

14. Download: The transmission of data from a server to our computer.

15. Upload: the storing of data in a server.

16. File: An encapsulated piece of data.

17. Freeware: Software that is free.

18. Domain: the URL name of a website.

19. Router: A hardware component that routes IP addresses.

20. Spyware: Software meant to be installed unnoticedly in a computer in

order to collect information about it.

21. Buffer: A place in memory in which data is placed temporarily.

22. Compilation: The translation of code to a lower level of abstraction.

23. Command: A specific instruction sent to a computer.

24. Firmware: The software controller of a hardware component.

25. Debug: To find and remove bugs from code.

26. Binary: Something that only have one of two values at any given moment.

27. Database: A logical structure for data to be stored in.

28. Laptop: A portable computer.

29. Hard disk: The main hardware component in which data is allocated in a
computer.

30. Bluetooth: A technology that allows devices to connect wirelessly between

short distances.
31. Peripheral: A hardware component that is connected externally to a
computer.

32. Driver: A small program that tells a PC how a peripheral works.

33. Icon: A small image or picture used as a symbol for something.

34. Data: Information.

35. Application: A self-contained piece of software.