This document contains 17 homework questions on computer skills for a college course. The questions cover topics like algorithms, programming languages, binary and hexadecimal number representations, error detecting codes, data processing, and basic arithmetic operations in binary and other number systems. Students are asked to define terms, draw diagrams, convert between number systems, perform arithmetic, and explain concepts like 2's complement subtraction.
This document contains 17 homework questions on computer skills for a college course. The questions cover topics like algorithms, programming languages, binary and hexadecimal number representations, error detecting codes, data processing, and basic arithmetic operations in binary and other number systems. Students are asked to define terms, draw diagrams, convert between number systems, perform arithmetic, and explain concepts like 2's complement subtraction.
This document contains 17 homework questions on computer skills for a college course. The questions cover topics like algorithms, programming languages, binary and hexadecimal number representations, error detecting codes, data processing, and basic arithmetic operations in binary and other number systems. Students are asked to define terms, draw diagrams, convert between number systems, perform arithmetic, and explain concepts like 2's complement subtraction.
Answer ALL Questions (with neat diagrams & examples wherever necessary) 1. Explain the terms algorithm, programming language, and computer program. 2. Draw a block diagram of a computer. Explain the function of each of the blocks. 3. How are characters represented in computers. 4. Write short notes on Hexadecimal number representation. 5. Explain Error-detecting code in detail. 6. Illustrate various steps in data processing. 7. Find the decimal values of 1011010, 0101111, 111111 & 1000001. 8. Find the binary equivalents of the decimal numbers 19, 31, 67, 126. 9. Find the decimal equivalents of the octal numbers 25, 47, 136. 10. Find the decimal equivalents of the hexadecimal numbers 64, A2C, C6F1. 11. Find the octal equivalents of the binary numbers 100101010110 & 1101110000111. 12. Find the hexa equivalents of the binary numbers 100011100101 & 111100001101010.
13. Add the following : 11101.0101 + 111.010101 11010.1010 + 101.1111 111111 + 10111
14. Subtract the following : 10101 111 10000 1011 110000 10111
15. Multiply the following : 101 x 111 10111 x 100 1111 x 10
16. Divide the following: 1011010 / 100 1111000 / 111
17. Perform the following subtraction using 2s complement method: 1011 - 1000 11110 - 10011 1000 1111 * * * * * *