What were the start and stop bits? I got the even parity bit as 1 as there were an odd number of 1's.
I just assumed that the parity bit was different to the stop and the stop was different to the start so i got stop as 0 and start as 1? That was a total guess though...
I thought that was insanely easy compared to how it could have been! :P Everyone in our school did it in about 1.30 hours (Then again, the teacher we had last year, who came in for a revision day this year, is a nationally known expert, and wrote the textbook! :P - so maybe we had a slight advantage in that we were being taught by an actual GOD). My main problem was not having enough space in the darned essay Qs - I was writing half-pages for 2-mark Qs!!??!! :P
EDIT: Also, choilfc, yeah the parity bit was 1, and I reckon the other mark was just for knowing that the start and stop bits have to be different, (cos they don't tell you what the idle state of the line is) - so as long as start and stop were different you'll get both marks.
What were the start and stop bits? I got the even parity bit as 1 as there were an odd number of 1's.
I just assumed that the parity bit was different to the stop and the stop was different to the start so i got stop as 0 and start as 1? That was a total guess though...
Parity? what questions is this? and how many marks.
Then again, the teacher we had last year, who came in for a revision day this year, is a nationally known expert, and wrote the textbook! :P - so maybe we had a slight advantage in that we were being taught by an actual GOD
If your teacher wrote the textbook, they must be ******* useless...there was a ridiculous amount of mistakes in that book, in explanations, diagrams, et al. Even missed out some topics that were on the spec, such as binary trees and traversing trees
A pitiful effort really...half our time was spent working out whether the textbook was correct or not, and if not (most of the time) we had to work it out for ourselves
(I assume you mean the endorsed AQA A2 Computing textbook...thats the one I'm referring to)
Agreed Lanithro, the people who wrote the book are idiots! It was so confusing to understand, didn't contain half of the course but included things like Quicksort under COMP3 with a side note saying we don't need to know it!
(Then again, the teacher we had last year, who came in for a revision day this year, is a nationally known expert, and wrote the textbook! :P - so maybe we had a slight advantage in that we were being taught by an actual GOD).
Hahaha. Was his teaching as bad as his book? Or worse?
If your teacher wrote the textbook, they must be ******* useless...there was a ridiculous amount of mistakes in that book, in explanations, diagrams, et al. Even missed out some topics that were on the spec, such as binary trees and traversing trees
A pitiful effort really...half our time was spent working out whether the textbook was correct or not, and if not (most of the time) we had to work it out for ourselves
(I assume you mean the endorsed AQA A2 Computing textbook...thats the one I'm referring to)
Yh i agree with you too mate, the book is totally crap. I remember while revising, in just the first 4 units i found like 13 mistakes or something ridiculous like that!
What did you guys get for the degree of relations question, the one to do with making links with:
If your teacher wrote the textbook, they must be ******* useless...there was a ridiculous amount of mistakes in that book, in explanations, diagrams, et al. Even missed out some topics that were on the spec, such as binary trees and traversing trees
A pitiful effort really...half our time was spent working out whether the textbook was correct or not, and if not (most of the time) we had to work it out for ourselves
(I assume you mean the endorsed AQA A2 Computing textbook...thats the one I'm referring to)
Ouch - The Nelson Thornes one, yeah. His teaching was amazing - and every mistake/omission we found in the book he attributed to his co-author (S. Langfield). HE knows everything, so I was willing to believe him when he said that :P But yeah there were quite a few mistakes from Mrs. Langfield's bit