How Computers Work - #6

According to the video, when you look inside a computing device, you will see what things? Select all that you may see.

• Circuits and chips

• Plugs and other stuff

• Speakers and wires

• Chips and dips

When you look inside of a computing device, what do you see, or what do we call the things you can see?

• Operating system

• Hardware

• Software

• A vision of my dad asking me why I took the computer apart

If I can't see software, what is software?

• The games, the programs, the code

• The rubbery parts of the computer case

• When you turn the speakers down low

• The data that you store on a USB drive

According to the video, the CPU is what?

• Creative Process Umbrella

• The chip that detects when you plug in a USB device

• The chip in the monitor that draws the letters on the screen

• The master chip that controls all the other parts of the computer

Select all of the statements that are TRUE about a CPU.

• It has circuits to do simple math and logic

• It has circuits to send and receive information to and from other parts of the computer

• It receives simple commands to tell it which circuit to use

• None of these

Nobody writes software in binary. It would take forever. Instead, we write in one of many different programming languages. Select all of the languages the video showed

• Python

• Framalam

• Ruby

• Zuberator

• Blockly

What's a good explanation for the difference between hardware and software?

• Hardware you can touch; software tells the computer what to do

• Hardware is software that has been left outside in the sun too long

• Hardware is the input, and software is the output

• There is only one software application that can work on the hardware

The Operating System of a computer is... what?

• Special programs like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides

• Special programs that are used in the operating room of a hospital

• The master program that manages how software uses the hardware of a computer

• A program that manages separate user accounts on a computer

When you think your computer is running many programs at once, in reality...

• ...it's the opposite. Many programs are causing the operating system to do whatever they want it to do.

• ...it's many tiny squirrels who are deciding what programs to run

• ...the computer is time-traveling to a point in the future when your computer has finished running your program

• ...it's the operating system that is quickly switching between programs

What most makes a computer useful?

• The size of the keyboard

• The amazing programs it is running that were written by humans

• The color of the case

• How long the battery lasts