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 microwave is a special purpose computer that directs the unit to run for a certain length of time at a certain level. The hardware would be the microwave heating unit itself, which is controlled by the CPU in the unit telling it when, for how long, and at what power to run.
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
When we use the companion it makes up to the minute changes to the app, but when we package it we are left only with the state of the app at the time we packaged it. It is similar to the difference between a live Google Doc and a static Word document or pdf.
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
7 million characters is equal to 7 million bytes. 7 million bytes is equal to 6 MB or 0.0001GB otherwise 1 GB is equal to roughly 1 Billion Bytes, so you could fit the series about 1000 times onto a 7GB drive.