Week 9

This week all I have been doing is catching up with work and making sure everything was finished. In Paul's lesson I have been doing RISC's and CISC's. I found an interactive diagram online that took me through all the stages and explained what was going on stage by stage. I then turned that information into a leaflet. In this leaflet I described what both RISC's and CISC's do and how they allow the processor and peripherals to communicate. I need to move on and give an illustration of how it works inside the computer. Also, it took a lot longer than I planned but we started doing a bit of programming. I wanted to test out some programming to see if I could possibly pursue it as a career and I really did enjoy it. This means that I could look for possible careers in this department as we made a game of pong using BBC Basic and it really was enjoyable. This is because I had planned to look at some universities to see which had good IT facilities so I could have an idea of which I wanted to go to. I researched some and found some in Birmingham that offer some the best facilities.