Introduction to Computers

Is your phone considered a Personal Computer?

• Yes

• No

What does Personal Computer mean?

• Designed for a single user.

• You can only do personal business on it.

• Only applies to a desktop computer.

• If anyone else touches it, it will blow up.

What is the building block of all PC's? A special kind of electrical switch.

• Computer

• Transistor

• Hard Drive

• Electrode

A transitor is either low or high, and creates a code called:

• switch

• coding

• binary

• light

Each binary code is in 1's and 0's and is called a

• byte

• bit

• ball

• bait

What is software?

• Mouse

• Hard drive

• Programs and Files

• A marshmellow in the hard drive

What is hardware?

• The outside "box" of the computer

• Football helmet

• Hammer

• Physical components of a computer

What piece of hardware is considered the "brains" of the computer?

• Hard drive

• Processor

• Transistor

• Keyboard

A Processor:

• prints a document

• Speaks directions to you

• interprets the insructions from the software

What does computer memory do? Select 2.

• Keep track of software and stores open files

• Remembers your shopping list

• How the computer types on the screen

• can make the computer go faster