Intro to Computers

What is the defnition of a computer

• a machine like your iPad that does software

• A computer is any device or machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.

• it has hardware and software and does commands

• it can make a phone call or play a game

What are the different types of computers we learned in class

• MAC Computer

• Controls Systems Computer

• General Purpose Computer

• Dedicated Systems Computer

A dedicated systems computer performs one job like an ATM machine

• true

• false

Alan Turing is considered the father of computers

• true

• false

Turing's computer was built to

• defeat Russia in the Cold War

• break the German codes in WWII

• break the German codes in WWI

• Win the space rase

Turing's computer is considered the first modern day computer because it could

• play iTunes

• play games

• it was the first programmable computer that could do more than one task

• it had a monitor

The computer process is known as

• the program

• the input - process - output model

• the input - output process

• difficult

Which are applications (uses) of a computer

• simulation and modelling

• MAC OS

• Robotics

• Bionics

Cryptography is a computer application which can

• Protect the secrecy and the integrity of data sent from one computer to another.

• makes maps

• can do excel sheets

• is found in google classroom

Which piece of computer hardware is like the human brain because it does all of the processing

• motherboard

• Hard Drive

• CPU

• RAM memory