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Orbital Space Station – Emergency Exit Mission

Administrator — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:50:35 +0000

Your Mission: Unlock the Emergency Exit Gate You are aboard the Orbital Space Station K.101, orbiting the distant exoplanet K2-18b. After a catastrophic collision with space debris, the station is hurtling toward the planet’s atmosphere. You have minutes —maybe less—…

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CPU Design using Logic Gates

Administrator — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:45:17 +0000

Let’s embark on an exciting journey to dissect and understand a small, fully functional CPU made entirely of logic gates. This design serves as a proof of concept, illustrating how the main components of a CPU work together to execute…

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Designing a 4-Byte RAM Circuit using Logic Gates

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:52:13 +0000

In the world of digital electronics, memory storage is a fundamental concept that underpins the functionality of computers and other digital systems. At the heart of these systems are logic gates and circuits that work together to store and retrieve…

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The Uses and Characteristics of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

Administrator — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:17:55 +0000

A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialised electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to perform complex calculations on large data sets and/or to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to…

Software Development Methodologies

Administrator — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:24:52 +0000

Software development methodologies are structured approaches to the process of creating software. They provide a framework that guides business analysts, system designers, software developers, system testers and project managers through the various stages of software development, from initial concept to…

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Ada Lovelace and the First Computer Algorithm

Administrator — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:49:51 +0000

In this post we will focus on a very specific algorithm called the Note G algorithm, written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace. Born in 1815, Ada Lovelace is celebrated as a visionary whose work laid the groundwork for modern computing.…

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Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine Emulator

Administrator — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:27:05 +0000

In 19th-century London, Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor, embarked on a groundbreaking quest to build the Analytical Engine, a mechanical precursor to the modern computer. Frustrated by errors in manual calculations, Babbage envisioned a machine capable of performing…

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Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Emulator

Administrator — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:41:09 +0000

In this blog post we will investigate the work of Charles Babbage with a particular focus on one of his most famous inventions: the Difference Engine. This invention constitutes a pioneering step in Computer Science. We will also explore the…

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Lossless Compression Algorithms using Python

Administrator — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:44:42 +0000

In today’s data-driven world, efficient storage and transmission of information are more critical than ever. Lossless compression techniques play a pivotal role in achieving this efficiency by reducing data size without compromising its integrity. Unlike lossy compression, which sacrifices some…

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Scheduling Algorithms – Python Challenge

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:32:31 +0000

One of the main purpose of the Operating System is to control the hardware and more specifically the CPU. The CPU performs all the jobs/processes requested by the different applications. A scheduler is a program of the Operating System that…

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