2.5 Mobile Devices and Apps: Hardware and Software Curriculum Page
Answer the following questions:
1. Give an example of a special purpose computer that you are familiar with and briefly describe its hardware and its software.
Answer
A Barcode scanner is a special purpose computer. It scans barcodes on the object and the hardware stores the numbers and goes to a larger computer to remove or add a item.
2. Explain in your own words the difference between running your app by "Connecting to the Companion" and running your app by "Packaging" it.
Answer
"connecting to the companion" means there's a program on the device that tells the app to run on the device. Packaging it tells the entire app to turn to binary for it to run on the device
3. As we learned in this lesson, a byte is about the same amount of memory as a character, such as the letter 't'. There are approximately 7 million characters in all of the Harry Potter novels combined. How many bytes of memory would all of the Harry Potter novels take up? How many copies of the Harry Potter novels would fit on a 7 Gigabyte flash drive. (Remember 1 Gigabyte is 1 billion bytes.)
Answer
1,000 copies of the Harry Potter novels would fit on a 7 Gigabyte flash drive.