To help meet this demand, students seeking Computer Careers will need at least a bachelor's degree in computer engineering or computer science. If you're
Binary Format. Any file format in which information is encoded in some format other
than a standard character encoding scheme . A file
written in binary format contains information which is not displayable as
characters. Soft...
Bit. A bit is the smallest unit of information that a computer can work with.
Each bit is either a one or a zero. Often computers work with chunks of bits
rather than one bit at a time; the smallest chunk of bits a computer usuall...
Block. On magnetic tape, a physical chunk of information separated from other
blocks by an interblock gap of blank space. The
computer reads and processes the information from a tape in blocks. The size
of a block is typicall...
