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Terms and definitions from Course 1
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Bog'liq Ky-74O6AR82Ppk-tPM798A b616b0b833ba4f099c3837bd0bf712f1 Course-1-Technical-Support-Fundamentals-GlossaryBlock storage: It improves faster handling of data because the data isn't stored in one long piece but in blocks, so it can be accessed quicker
Boot: To start up a computer
Bootloader: A small program that loads the operating system
Browser: A user interface for displaying and interacting with web pages
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): Refers to the practice of allowing people to use their own personal devices for work
Byte: A group of 8 bits
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Cache: The assigned stored location for recently or frequently accessed data; on a mobile app it is where anything that was changed or created with that app is stored
Character encoding: Is used to assign our binary values to characters so that we as humans can read them
Charge cycle: One full charge and discharge of a battery
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): Regulates the information we show to children under the age of 13
Chipset: It decides how components talk to each other on our machine
Chrome OS: A Linux-based operating system designed by Google
Clients: A device that receives data from a server
Clock cycle: When you send a voltage to the clock wire
Clock speed: The maximum number of clock cycles that it can handle in a set in a certain time period
Clock wire: When you send or receive data, it sends a voltage to that clock wire to let the CPU know it can start doing calculations
Coding: Translating one language to another
Command Line Interface (CLI): A shell that uses text commands to interact with the operating system
Compiled programming language: A language that uses human readable instructions, then sends them through a compiler
Computer: A device that stores and processes data by performing calculations
Computer file: Data that we store and a file can be anything, a word document, a picture, a song, literally anything
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