Computer studies 5
3 hours per week * First semester * Peninsula * Prerequisites: EDN2265 and EDN2275
The subject first examines the workings of the processor and then considers the significant features of an information system's life cycle. The stored program concept. The processor: instructions, data, registers, processing cycle, data flow. Machine language programming, direct addressing, indirect addressing. The hypothetical computer. Assembler language programming. Organisational structures for computing: life cycles of information systems; development life cycle; role of the system analyst; a case study.
Assessment
Examinations: 66% * Practical exercises: 35%