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Kaduna State University: Faculty of Sciences Department of Computer Science

This document is a student assignment containing questions about encoding and classifying different types of computers. For question 1, the student provides a 3 paragraph response defining encoding, describing common types of encoding like URL encoding and ASCII encoding, and listing advantages and disadvantages. For question 2, the student classifies laptops, tablets, notebooks, mobile phones, and briefcase computers as either general purpose or special purpose computers. The document concludes by citing two references used.

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Kaduna State University: Faculty of Sciences Department of Computer Science

This document is a student assignment containing questions about encoding and classifying different types of computers. For question 1, the student provides a 3 paragraph response defining encoding, describing common types of encoding like URL encoding and ASCII encoding, and listing advantages and disadvantages. For question 2, the student classifies laptops, tablets, notebooks, mobile phones, and briefcase computers as either general purpose or special purpose computers. The document concludes by citing two references used.

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KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

NAME OF STUDENT:
MUSA FRIDAY

MATRIC NO.
KASU/19/CSC/1031

COURSE:
CSC 203 (OPERATING SYSTEM)

TASK:
TAKE – HOME ASSIGNMENT

DUE DATE:
THURSDAY, 5TH OF AUGUST, 2021

QUESTION
1. What do you understand by encoding?
2. Classify the following;
a. Laptop
b. Mobile phones
c. Tablets
d. Briefcase computers
e. Notebook computers
into any of general purposed computers or special purposed computers.
[QUESTION 1]
ENCODING
Encoding is the process of putting a sequence of characters such as letters, numbers and
other special characters into a specialized format for efficient transmission. The opposite
of encoding is Decoding which is the process of converting an encoded format back into
the original sequence of characters. It is completely different from Encryption which we
usually misinterpret.

Encoding and decoding are used in data communications and storage. Encoding should
NOT be used for transporting sensitive information.

FORMS/KINDS OF ENCODING
URL Encoding
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set and there are
instances when URL contains special
characters apart from ASCII characters, it needs to be encoded. URLs do not contain
spaces and are replaced with a plus (+)
sign or with %20.

ASCII Encoding
The Browser (client side) will encode the input according to the character-set used in the
web-page and the default character set in HTML5 is UTF-8.

ADVANTAGES OF ENCODING
1. Speeding up data entry
2. Less storage space
3. Some codes are easy to understand e.g Mon, Teu, Wed etc.
4. Data validation

ADVANTAGES OF ENCODING
1. Difficult to track and correct errors
2. Limited number of codes
3. Coarsening of data.
4. Coding of value judgements.
5. Coding can obscure the meaning of data.
6. Time wastage in the encoding and decoding process.

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION


Encoding, though do help in many cases depending on the situation, can cause many
problems and at such, encoding should NOT be used for transporting sensitive
information.

[QUESTION 2]
The following computers are classified into general purposed and special purposed
computers as shown below.
General Purposed Computers Special Purposed computers
Notebook Mobile Phones
Tablets Briefcase Computer
Mobile phones
Laptop

REFERENCES
Security Testing - Encoding and Decoding (2019). Tutorialspoint
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/security_testing/encoding_and_decoding.htm
Retrieved 5th of August, 2020.

Encoding (2012). GetRevising https://.getrevising.co.uk/grids/encoding_data Retrieved


5th of August, 2020.

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