Learning unit 1

All the parts of the computer that you can touch: the monitor, CPU, printer, mouse, and keyboard.

• Hardware

• Keyboard

• Hard drive

• Central Processing Unit

 

The fixed device inside your computer where programs and files are stored.

• Hard drive

• 
  Central Processing Unit

• 
  USB DRIVE

• RAM

The tool/s you can use tell the computer what to do. For example you can open programs and files by clicking or double clicking.

• Mouse

• Touch screen

•  

  Keyboard

• Joystick

Where all the instructions and information you put into the computer is processed

(a)  

Pointing to something on the screen and then pushing the left button on the mouse.

• clicking

• double clicking

• hovering

• drag and drop

The line or arrow that follows your mouse movement

• Icon

• Cursor

• file

• Tile

A piece of computer information such as a document or part of a computer program.

• File

• Program

• folder

• icon

The screen you see first when your computer turns on.

• scroll bars

• Desktop

• start menu

• Task bar

(a)   is another word for softwares or applications

basic functions of a computer

• Accept data such as raw facts

• Process data

• monitor traffic

• Produce information