{"id":31799,"date":"2018-03-26T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=31799"},"modified":"2018-03-26T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:45:08","slug":"computer-science-networks-what-is-a-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-networks-what-is-a-node\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science, networks: what is a node?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Understanding computer networking leads to self-tutoring: the tutor defines <em>node<\/em> in computer networks.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background-color:darkblue;color:cadetblue;white-space:pre-wrap;padding:16px;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%\">\n<span>node (noun):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>an endpoint, or else a directing or processing device between endpoints. The endpoint could be a PC, printer, scanner, server, etc: at an endpoint, content either enters the network or is received there.<\/p>\n<p>The directing device could be a router.<\/p>\n<p>There are different points of view about nodes depending on the type of network, etc. However, one point of view imagines a node as a point where information enters, is received, or is processed in some way to make it available to its end user. A router, for instance, directs information to its various specific requesters.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H8y7_G3bxwc\">audiopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/open-systems-interconnection-model-816290\">www.lifewire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/how-routers-work-816456\">www.lifewire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatismyipaddress.com\/router\">whatismyipaddress.com\/router<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/234233\/whats-the-difference-between-a-modem-and-a-router\/\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding computer networking leads to self-tutoring: the tutor defines node in computer networks. node (noun): an endpoint, or else a directing or processing device between endpoints. The endpoint could be a PC, printer, scanner, server, etc: at an endpoint, content &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-networks-what-is-a-node\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer science, networks: what is a node?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2816,1],"tags":[2818,2817],"class_list":["post-31799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-networks","category-uncategorized","tag-definition-of-node","tag-what-is-a-node-computer-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31799"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31868,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799\/revisions\/31868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}