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
I special purpose computer that I am familiar with is my iPhone. It has an operating system that is efficient and able to process text files, images, etc.
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
The difference between running my app by "connecting to the companion" and running my app by "packaging" it is that by connecting to the companion, I am using an internet connection to upload the app onto the companion. By packaging the app I am downloading it onto the companion so that it can run anywhere on an android 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
7000