Standard

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.

TECH 101: CPU (Central Processing Unit)

The CPU is the primary component of a computer that processes instructions. It runs the operating system and applications, constantly receiving input from the user or active software programs.

TECH 101: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

Stands for “Hypertext Transfer Protocol.” HTTP is the protocol used to transfer data over the web. It is part of the Internet protocol suite and defines commands and services used for transmitting webpage data.

TECH 101: XML (Extensible Markup Language)

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to describe data. The XML standard is a flexible way to create information formats and electronically share structured data.