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Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?

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You will therefore, be pleased to know that Open University students on the IT degree programmes do study 2s complement arithmetic along with gaining an understanding of bits, bytes and nibbles. All covered in the first 2 compulsory modules TM111 and TM112. They also start off learning how to code by decomposing a problem into an algorithm.

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