Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition

Students Guide to Information

Technology

3 draw a road map to the site and photocopy this

4 give a verbal description of the route to the site.

Although these are quite different methods, each with its advantages

and disadvantages, they all contain

information

on how to reach the

site.

Read this list again, and see if you can decide what is meant by the

term information.

Here are two possible definitions:

1 facts and ideas presented in a meaningful form

2 a representation or

model

of some aspect of the real world.

In the camp site example, the aspect of the world under consideration

is the route to the site, and the facts being represented