This is a great video showing how a monitor displays images. looking at pixels, subpixels and refresh rate.
Higher – Scholar Homework Session
Theme: | Relational Databases |
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Subjects: | Higher Computing Science |
Audience: | Student |
When: | Wednesday, 24 January 2018 6:30 PM |
Presented by: | Ian King, SCHOLAR Online Tutor for Computing Science |
Session link: | http://heriot-watt.adobeconnect.com/scholarhomework (Enter as a Guest) |
Higher – Intraframe Vs Interframe
Intraframe compression applies to compressing individual frames.
Interframe compression applies the compression to many frames and stores only what changes between each frame.
We also talked today about bitrate, this is the amount of data in a single second of data. This is normally measured in bps (bits per second).
BGE – Image File Types
You only need to watch the first 3 and a half minutes.
Higher – Scholar Homwork Session
Theme: | Standard Algorithms |
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Subjects: | Higher Computing Science |
Audience: | Student |
When: | Wednesday, 10 January 2018 6:30 PM |
Presented by: | Ian King, SCHOLAR Online Tutor for Computing Science |
Session link: | http://heriot-watt.adobeconnect.com/scholarhomework (Enter as a Guest) |
Higher – Scholar Homework Session
Theme: | HTML and CSS |
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Subjects: | Higher Computing Science |
Audience: | Student |
When: | Wednesday, 13 December 2017 6:30 PM |
Presented by: | Ian King, SCHOLAR Online Tutor for Computing Science |
Session link: | http://heriot-watt.adobeconnect.com/scholarhomework (Enter as a Guest) |
Higher – Javascript mouse events
The code bellow uses mouse events to run a javascript function.
On line 15 the onmouseover and onmouseout events are used to call the function on line 6.
Line 7 targets the swap id and uses the argument passed to replace the image source.
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> function changeImage(img_src) { document.getElementById("swap").src = img_src; } </script> </head> <body> <h1>roll over</h1> <img id="swap" src="redButton.jpg" onmouseover='changeImage("blueButton.jpg")' onmouseout='changeImage("redButton.jpg")'> </body> </html>
N5 – BBC Bitesize
BBC’s Bitesize has now been updated with new National 5 Content.
Higher – Database Learning Points
We have now finished Databases. Here is what you should know.
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How to describe the structure of a database in terms of tables, records and fields.
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The advantages of using relational databases.
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The purpose of primary, surrogate, foreign and compound keys.
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The differences between one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
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The purpose and uses of tables, forms and reports.
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What is meant by a relationship in a database.
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How to perform complex operations, such as performing a query, creating a form, creating a report.
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A calculated field is one which is created using a query which calculates a result from one or more existing fields.
Higher – Scholar Homework Session
Theme: | Avoiding and correcting coding errors (Download worksheet) |
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Subjects: | Higher Computing Science |
Audience: | Student |
When: | Wednesday, 8 November 2017 6:30 PM |
Presented by: | Ian King, SCHOLAR Online Tutor for Computing Science |
Session link: | http://heriot-watt.adobeconnect.com/scholarhomework (Enter as a Guest) |