1st Year Review

Information that a user physically enters into a computer by pressing a key on a keyboard, clicking a mouse, tapping a touch screen, pushing a button on a game controller, speaking into a microphone, etc.

• Input

• Processing

• Output

• Storage

The operations performed by a computer to retrieve, transform, or classify information.

• Processing

• Output

• Storage

• Transistor

Information that a computer returns to a user such as images on a screen, sounds from speakers, and printed pages.

• Output

• Storage

• Microchip

• Input

The saving of information on memory chips, discs, or other storage media by a computer for later use.

• Processing

• Storage

• Smartphone

• Supercomputers

A system for making digital resources publicly available over the internet using a web browser that paved the way for email, chatrooms, and social media sites

• World Wide Web

• Supercomputers

• Dark Web

• Human-computer Interaction

A mobile phone that functions as a computer and allows users to access the internet.

• Processing

• Output

• Smartphone

• Supercomputers

What is a computer?

• A computer is case that manipulates information or data.

• A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information or data.

• A computer is powered box that manipulates information or data.

A computer has the ability to:

• It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data.

• It has the ability to store, retrieve, and pastas data.

• It has the ability to stage, retrieve, and process data.

You can use a computer to (check all that apply)

• Type Documents

• Send Email

• Play Games

• Browse the web

Hardware is ...

• any part of your computer

• any part of your computer that has a hard structure

• any part of your computer that has a software structure

• any part of your computer that has a physical structure