WEEK 5

Topic: Data

Subtitle: Meaning and Types of Data

Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1. Define data

2. State the type of data

Instructional material: A functional computer system.

CONTENT

DATA

Data are raw facts that need to be processed. it is called raw and unorganized facts. It is useless until it is processed and well organized.

TYPES OF DATA

1 numerical data: These are mainly numbers such as 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

2. Alphabetical data: These are mainly letters A_Z and other words formed by these letters e.g father, mother, aunt, sister, friend etc

3.  Alphanumeric data: Alphanumeric means numbers, alphabet and special characters.

Examples are: