Folder: Computers

Definitions of computer-related terms.

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Smartphone

Type of computer: a mobile device that fits in your hand (handheld) that works as a cellphone, but that also has functions that traditional cellphones wouldn't have, such as the ability to access the Internet, an operating system that allows the development and installation of new applications (called apps), the ability to display images and videos, an interactive screen (touchscreen) instead of physical buttons, the ability of take photos and record videos, among other functions.
Tutorials for Basic Computer Operations

Basic tutorials for operating a computer, specially one with Windows installed.
0x

A code that prefixes a hexadecimal number, e.g. 0xFF or 0xBAADF00D.
Code

An overview of various types of computer codes, and the process of encoding an decoding from media like text, image, and binary.
Computer

What is a Computer? For most people, a "computer" is a personal computer, or a PC. A desktop PC. They may count laptops and notebooks within their definition of computer, but it usually stops there. If we want to be technical, the computer includes a lot of other things as well. Most importantly, smartphones are […]
Hexadecimal Numbers

Besides binary numbers, another type of number commonly found in computers are the hexadecimal numbers. You may encounter them when talking about colors, RGB, RGBA, memory addresses in a computer, or even editing the bytes of a file with a hex editor. But what are hexadecimal numbers? How do they work? Hexadecimal numbers, or numbers […]
Data

The easiest way to think about data is to think of data as records, as registers. Every time something is recorded, that is data. This record could be some numbers and measurements that we wrote down. It could be a transcription of what someone said. Or we could have recorded the audio or video of […]
Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

What are Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, and Terabytes? Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes are data measurement units: they're used to measure the size of files in a computer, the capacity of devices of mass storage like hard disks and SSDs, and the speed of reading, writing, and transfering data. 1 kilobyte is equal to 1000 bytes. […]
Hardware

Hardware are the physical components of a computer. All the components that you can touch are hardware. The term is used in contrast with software, which are the virtual components necessary for a computer to perform de computation of something. That is, programs made out of bytes are software, and everything that isn't made of […]
Bit

The bit is the smallest amount of data that a computer can understand and manipulate. A single bit can only have two possible values. Think of the bit as a lamp being turned "off" or "on," except it's an extremely small lamp. We can interpret this off-on signal in various ways: "off" could mean "false," […]
Byte

The byte is an unit used to measure computer file sizes and data sizes. Just like grams measure weights and meters measure distances, bytes measure data. A single byte is equivalent to 8 bits. A single byte can contain enough data to represent a binary number from 0000000 to 1111111, which is equivalent to a […]