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The BIOS is most like the computer’s

• brain

• eyes and hands

• stomach

• lungs

The CPU can handle ________ of instructions a second

• thousands

• millions

• billions

• hundreds

Programs are encoded and stored in memory as

• 1's and 0's

• raw text

• html

• python

The CPU’s job is

• to store information

• to deal with input and output from peripherals

• to edit files in memory

• to fetch and execute instructions

The critical components of your computer’s architecture are:

• Wires, Plastic, Silicon

• Programs, Bits, Bytes, HTML

• Peripherals, BIOS, CPU, Programs, Memory

• Mouse, Motherboard, Integrated Circuits, Wires

Why are programs saved in a different format than the human readable programming languages that they are written in?

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What are some of the programs that your computer is running even when you’re not touching it?

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What are some of the things your computer needs to know in order to respond properly to a mouse click?

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