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Helwan University – Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) – Computer Science Department

Academic Year (2019/2020) Fall Semester (1st Term)


CS111 – Intro. to Computer Science (General Division) – Intro. to Soft Computing (Medical Informatics Program)

Exercises - Problems Sheet # 1 : An Introduction to Computational Thinking

No. Of Questions: 2 No. Of Pages: 1

 To be submitted during the Labs of week 4 (Starting on Saturday the 12th of October).
 Students will lose 2 marks if this homework is not delivered on time or found out to be copied.
 The submitted solutions should be handwritten and NOT typed/printed.

Question 1: Answer the following.

1. What is a computer? And what is Computer Science?


2. What’s the difference between data and information?
3. What’s the difference between ASCII code and Unicode?
4. What’s the difference between ROM and RAM?
5. What are the differences between Natural Languages and Programming Languages?
6. How can we represent the following decimal values in binary: 2, 3, 7, 8, 50, 60, 100, 127, 128,
255, 256.
7. Draw a suitable block diagram of basic organization of a computer system and describe them in
brief.

Question 2: Answer the following in detail.

1. Discuss the 5 computer generations along with the key characteristic of the computer in each
generation (Search the internet to include more information & details).
2. Write in detail about the different types of primary storage (Search the internet to include more
information & details).
3. Define the Decimal and Binary number systems, and the differences between them.
4. Discuss how images are represented in a computer system, and the relationship between videos
and images.
5. Define the concept of Artificial Intelligence, and mention some of its applications in everyday
life.
6. Discuss the relation between algorithms, pseudocodes, and flowcharts.

With our best wishes;

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CS111 Exercises – Problems Sheet # 1 – Fall 2019-2020

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