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Why? In the student homebase representative group chat, there arrived a message. A certain message leading people to visit a certain site. That would be this. This would be a hackathon. An event where programmers (or non programmers) (foreshadowing) would come together and code in teams while competing with other teams to win prizes and recognition from other programmers in the event. Usually, one would have to pay for these kinds of events, but this one was actually free. And held close to my home. So I decided, why not? I’d just have to go to the Global International Indian School that my peers who came from that school had said great things about. Could anyting go wrong? ...

Economics revision guide NOTE: This guide was NOT WRITTEN BY ME, but by Markus Clausen. I do not take the economics course. you can find the PDF here.

Da link here For the uneducated: Our school provides the IGCSE Comp Sci 0478 course (instead of ICT now), but the school’s selection of teachers are suboptimal. Despite their best efforts to teach us as much as they can, computer science is a hard subject for many and they may need a revision guide to help them. Tested topics From the homework post, Chapter 2 Data transmission structure of data packets & contents packet switching methods of transmission (serial, parallel, HD & FD) USB error detection - parity check, checksum, echocheck check digits - ISBN 13 and Modulo 11 (know how GENERATE and RECALCULATE) NO CALCULATOR ALLOWED ARQ Encryption Chapter 3 Hardware CPU Dual core & quad core processors Von neumann architecture control bus, address bus, data bus fetch-decode-execute cycle instruction sets embedded systems qr codes RAM, ROM, DRAM, SRAM virtual memory MAC addresses router Chapter 9 Databases structure of flat file - fields, records, validation data types use of primary keys SQL scripts to query data