Computer Fundamentals

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Computers are made up of ________ and ________?

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Hardware and Software

Front

________ is a package of instructions that tell the computer what to do also known as an application or short for app.

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Software

Front

People who write software (instructions that tell the computer what to do) are called ______________.

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Programmers

Front

Hardware is the tangible, physical equipment that _______________.

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Can be seen and touched.

Front

A program can be defined as a series of detailed step-by-step ___________ that tell the computer precisely what actions to perform.

Back

Instructions

Front

RAM stands for?

Back

random access memory

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ROM stands for?

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read only memory

Front

The computer's _________ memory (ex. microchips: RAM, ROM)

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internal

Front

The computer's _________ memory (ex. thumb drives, hard drives, cloud storage: ie. Dropbox)

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external

Front

ROM is _____ and RAM is __________?

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permanent; temporary