TECH 101: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” ASCII is a character encoding that uses numeric codes to represent characters. These include upper and lowercase English letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols.
TECH 101: ALU (Arithmetic-Logic Unit)
An arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the part of a computer processor (CPU) that carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in computer instruction words.
TECH 101: VGA (Video Graphics Array)
The VGA standard was originally developed by IBM in 1987 and allowed for a display resolution of 640×480 pixels. Since then, many revisions of the standard have been introduced.
TECH 101: CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
Cascading style sheets are used to format the layout of Web pages. They can be used to define text styles, table sizes, and other aspects of Web pages that previously could only be defined in a page’s HTML.