Review for What Makes a Computer

Why the computer were invented?

• To solve more complicated problems than simple machines could solve

• To have fun so people can play games online

• To help with the manual work humans had in that era

Computers have to perform these 4 task:

• Insert, simulate, preliminate and eliminate data

• Input, storage, processing, and output information

• be turned on, played with, cleaned it and be turned off

Examples of devices that INPUT information to the computer

• camera, microphone, mouse, keyboard

• speakers, printer, headphones

• tablet, cellphone, nintendo switch

In a computer, what part takes the information from the memory to be manipulated?

• The keyboard

• The mouse

• The processor

what is an algorithm?

• A world series of strategies

• A series of commands or steps

• A complicated word

Devices that OUTPUT information from a computer?

• Display, headphones, and printer

• keyboard, mouse and camera

• robots, coding and digital devices

Four tasks that thinking machines need to perform are:
1/ Input                                3/ Processing
2/ Storage                            4/ Output

• False
• True

What were the first computers made of?

• rubber, plastic and glass
• wood, metal, mechanical gears

Which of the following are examples of output?

• text
• everything listed here
• photos
• video games

The output from one computer can become the input to another. True or false?

• True
• False