CTE 121 Digital Computer Fundamentals I

ND1 levelEngineering & Technology12 topics

CTE 121 covers 12 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Number systems and digits
Bases and positional weighting
Conversions between number systems
Binary number system in digital systems
Relationship among binary, octal and hexadecimal
Advantages of octal and hexadecimal representation
Binary-coded decimal (BCD)
Excess-3 code
Gray code
ASCII code
Seven-segment display code
Unicode

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Number systems and digits

Number systems and digits cover the representation of numbers in various bases (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal) and the rules governing digit values and place values. Mastery of conversion techniques and understanding of positional notation is essential for solving exam questions on data representation in digital computers.

What you get for CTE 121

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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