Binary Code Calculation

11000=48
101011=42
11111=30

111000=56
1100000=192
100000000=512

Window

an area used to show a program, message, or data.

Toolbar

a set of icons that is used to open up applications.

Title bar

A strip on top of the window that shows the title of the window.

Task bar

a strip at the bottom of the screen that is used to open and/or monitor applications.

Scroll Bar

a strip at the side or bottom of a window that brings you down, up, left, or right if a window is too large to display it all in the screen.

Restore

To put a window back up that has been minimized.

Pointing device

usually a mouse, to move the pointer on the screen to open applications, see properties of an application, etc.

Minimize

Send a window down to the task bar.

Menu bar

A strip at the top of a window that shows the options available in a program.

Menu

a list of commands presented to the user on the computer.

Maximize

To make a window large enough to cover the whole screen.

Icons

a small picture that stands for a program or an application in a G.U.I

Folder

holds files into one convenient place instead of scattered everywhere on the screen.

desktop

the area of the monitor in the G.U.I where icons and windows appear.

How technology will help my future career

I hope to be a game programmer when I get out of college, so technology will play a BIG part for me. Without technology, video games, among other things, wouldn't even exist today. I don't think people appreciate technology that much. Technology is what helps us live through life more easily, to get through diseases ravishing this world, protect ourselves using modern military technologies, etc.
What I'm doing will rarely change the world, but there's good money in it, so why not? If being a game programmer won't work out, I'll probably work in some other job involving computers, so technology will always be in my life, no matter what.

Vocabulary words

Algorithm- A rule or procedure on how to solve a problem.
Applications software- An application designed to perform a task, like word-processing.
Boot- a sequence of operations a computer does when it is turned on. It starts the Operating System.
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)- A type of user interface where a person uses it to communicate with another such as e-mail, phone, etc.
Language translators- A program which can translate a language to another.
MS-DOS- An Operating System created by Bill Gates for computers.
Multitasking- The process where a computer handles different things in the background while you are working on another thing.
Network operating system- A system designed to exchange information and communicate with other computers, like the internet.
Operating systems- A program which handles hardware and software of a computer.
Software development- The process of researching, modification, maintenance, etc. that creates a new software program.
Systems software- A software program that handles some part of your computer.
Unix- An OS, developed by Bell Laboratories. Commonly used for servers and web servers.
User interface- A software application that a user sees and interacts with.
Utility software- It does the housekeeping chores of the computer, like backing up data onto a disk or tape, clean up unused files, defrag disk storage, etc.