Evaluation

So far in my personal development plan I have learnt all the different types of hardware components that I didn’t know before for example, the CPU this stands for "Central Processing Unit." This is the pretty much the brain of your computer. It processes everything from basic instructions to complex functions. Any time something needs to be computed, it gets sent to the CPU. The CPU can also be referred to simply as the "processor." This exercise has helped me to reach part of my PDP as I didn’t know any of them before and hardware components was one of my targets which I have now met. Another target that I set myself as part of my PDP is to learn software utilities and operating systems as I have never done this before. Throughout this unit I have learnt that different computers use different programs for example we have mountain lion, windows 8 and linux mint 14. I would say that all of these work well but for different people and different businesses. By learning this I am one step closer to meeting my targets that I set at the beginning of this unit. Finally we have moved onto website design and this was the last thing that we needed to do to finally achieve my Personal development  plan was to create a website and we have just started doing this so I am well onto achieving all my targets that I set and to meeting my personal development plan in the near future.

PDP Update 5

This week we have been focusing on website and making one of our own. So far we have made a template in Photoshop that shows us where banner, logo, navigation bar and main content are going to go. This will help us keep the consistency of our website the same throughout all of the pages that we will create. This is because if we didn’t then we would put things in slightly different places and this will make the website look unprofessional and all of the pages will jump from one to another and this is not appealing to the eye. We are creating a website as a final task to show what we have learnt as we have to include things like software and hardware etc. basically all the things that we have learnt in unit 1 will be shown in this website. Therefore this will help me to finally reach my personal development plan targets and even though I haven’t set any for website I now realise that one of them would be to become more familiar with Photoshop as I haven’t really used it before but now I am getting more and more confident with it.   

PDP Update 4

This week we have been working on web architecture and different components that work or that are needed to make the internet work and accessible. We learnt that Web architecture includes Internet Service Providers (ISP); web hosting services; domain structure; domain name registrars; worldwide web. Also we found out that components include hardware e.g. web, mail and proxy servers; routers; software e.g. browser, email; Protocols: transport and addressing e.g. TCP/IP; application layer e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP and finally that web functionality consists of Web 2.0; blogs; online applications; cloud computing. By learning all of these this helps me toward my personal development plan as I know a lot about how the computer works including hardware and software and now web functionality.

PDP Update 3

In today’s lesson we learnt all about software components for a computer and the different types of operating systems that are available for all different computers. These include mountain lion, windows 8 and linux mint 14. We also learn that all these operating systems do different things. For example mountain lion software is for computers that are from apple for example, apple macs and mac book pros etc. iCloud is how a Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch work together.1 It keeps your mail, calendars, contacts, reminders, documents, notes and more up to date wherever you use them. Also you can now send messages to ipod touches macs, iphones and more because of iOS 5 and there is many apps that you can use like facebook, twitter, safari and many many more. There is also many built in features like garage band and more. By doing this I now know understand what the different types of operating systems that computers have this will help me to achieve my personal development plan.