14/01/2013 - 20/01/2013

In this week's lessons, I learnt the names and functions of all major pieces of hardware inside a computer such as the sound card (used to convert code into sound that is to be distributed via speakers), video card/graphics card (The larger your graphics/video card is, the higher resolution images your computer can display), RAM/ROM/CACHE memory (Different memory types have different purposes such as RAM which is used to allocate data from the computer's current settings and ROM which is a storgae unit that cannot be accessed by users generally) and a hard drive (a section of memory on a computer that users can access, install upon and save data to. It goes up in Bytes to KB, GB, TB, etc). This is useful as in my PDP I state that I have limited knowledge of the interior systems of a computer and the different cards and chips that exist within it. After this week, I feel that I am now comfortable in naming and describing what the interior components of a computer do.