Conor Golden

Some of my favorite topics from the semester were the Physical of a computer system; all the different chips and drives were very interesting to me. I especially liked the idea that the amount of computing power was limited to I believe the number was in the terabytes. The pathways that we learned information takes within a hard drive were cool to think about as well. The fact that all the information on a computer is in ones and zeros was not a new concept to me but the fact that even the letter H has about seven characters to it in binary code was a new fact for me.

This was interesting to me because I really thought that we had the technology to keep advancing computers for ever. It was surprising to me that we still have some inventing to do before we can make better super computers. It is something to think about, how long will it be until we have computers that fit in our hand that are as powerful as super computers are now. This could help me in the future when I work in the professional world in many ways, it will allow me to do most if not all of my computer needs on the go instead of sitting at a desk top. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4HBYzHMCXg

Another topic that we learned about earlier in the year was databases and all of the ways to create and use them effectively. We learned what types of data that most databases are used for and how helpful they can be. For example if start my own business someday I can use a database to store client information and process there orders. This task would normally be done by answering phones all day and writing things down on ten thousand sticky notes and it would be a disaster. Seeing how useful the database could be to a business is a interesting thing I learned from this class.