Information I

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Free Information I study notes for Common Test for University Admissions students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Information Society and Problem Solving

  • Problem solving with information and information technology

  • Information and media characteristics

  • Laws and systems concerning information

  • Information security

  • Information morals and individual responsibility

  • Impact of information technology on people and society

Information I

    Communication and Information Design

    • Media characteristics and means of communication

    • Digital representation of text, sound and images

    • The role of information design

    • Methods of information design

    • Designing, evaluating and improving expression

    Computers and Internal Representation

    • Structure of computers and external devices

    • Number bases and binary representation

    • Limits of computation and error

    • Logic circuits and basic operations

    Algorithms and Programming

    • Expressing algorithms (flowcharts and program notation)

    • Variables, arrays and assignment

    • Branching and repetition

    • Functions and program structure

    • Search and sort algorithms

    • Tracing, evaluating and improving programs

    Modelling and Simulation

    • Methods of modelling

    • Deterministic simulation

    • Probabilistic simulation

    • Evaluating and improving models

    Networks and Information Systems

    • Network structure and components

    • The role of protocols

    • Methods and technologies for information security

    • Storing, managing and providing data

    • Information systems and the services they provide

    Data Utilisation

    • Representing and structuring data

    • Collecting and organising data

    • Quantitative and qualitative data analysis

    • Reading charts: box plots, scatter plots and cross tabulation

    • Comparison, correlation, change and classification

    • Presenting, evaluating and improving results

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