Saturday, June 28, 2008

CSC AS I SEE IT NOW 003



DATA”
The word data is the plural of
Latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, "to give", hence "something given". The past participle of "to give" has been used for millennia, in the sense of a statement accepted at face value; one of the works of Euclid, circa 300 BC, was the Dedomena (in Latin, Data).While
DATA TYPE
In
computing, an abstract data type (ADT) is a specification of a set of data and the set of operations that can be performed on the data. Such a data type is abstract in the sense that it is independent of various concrete implementations. While
DATA STRUCTURE
In
computer science, a data structure is a way of storing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently. Often a carefully chosen data structure will allow the most efficient algorithm to be used.Unlike
DBMS”
As one of the oldest components associated with computers, the database management system, or DBMS, is a
computer software program that is designed as the means of managing all databases that are currently installed on a system hard drive or network.

No comments: