Thursday 15 November 2012

Computer Networking

Network Components

Major components of a computer network:
  • communication media
  • Interconnecting Devices
  • Computers
  • Networking Software
  • Applications

Types of Network

LAN- Local Area Network

A network of computers that are in the same physical location, or that spans a small area such as a building or an office. Software applications and other resources are stored on a file server. Print server enable multiple users to share the same printer.

WAN- Wide Area Network

A network that spans a wide geographical area, there are several types of WANS
  • Metropolitan area network(MAN)
  • public access network (PAN)
  • Value added network (VAN)
  • Virtual private network (VPN)


My Reflection about topic

Networking is very important for us now a days because it is being used in all offices, univerties and labs its is method to connect one computer to other so it is an important application of modern sciences it was such an interesting topic to know about the computer network. 

Programming Language


  • A set of words, abbreviations and symbols that enables a programmer to communicate instructions to computer.
  • A tool to write or create programs.
  • A language for a programmer to communicate with a computer

Types of Programming Language

Low-Level Language:

  • A machine-dependent language
  • Tedious and time-consuming
  • Each instruction represents a single machine instructions

High-Level Language

  • Machine-independent language
  • More user-friendly
  • Each instruction represents several machine instructions

Program Development process




My Reflection About topic


Computer can't understand our language directly we need to covert our language to computer understandable language in this class we study about the languages of computer and how to make it work. To make him understand what to do.