CourseHES 213

Week12 of 16

SemesterII

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This week’s topics

Storing sound: sampling

Sample rate and bit depth
Sound quality and file size

What you will be able to do

3.1 Explain how text, images and sound are represented in binary.

Activity

Compare the sound quality and size of two recordings.

Study materials

Further resources

Digitizing Sound (lecture slides) · PDF · York University EECS 4462 lecture slides (2020), slides on sampling, sample rate, bit depth and audio file size (a step up); 18 pp. · for registered students

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Course plan

Week 1: What is a computer system?
Week 2: Hardware: the parts of a computer
Week 3: Software: system and application software
Week 4: The CPU and the fetch-execute cycle
Week 5: Memory: RAM, ROM and cache
Week 6: What an operating system does
Week 7: Comparing operating systems
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Bits and bytes: units of storage
Week 10: Storing text: ASCII and Unicode
Week 11: Storing images: pixels and colour depth
Week 12: Storing sound: sampling
Week 13: Storage devices
Week 14: Choosing a computer for a job
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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