An electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data.
What is a computer?
It lets you point to objects on the screen, click on them, and move them
What Is A Mouse?
Used to print documents, photos, and anything else that appears on your screen.
What Is A Printer?
Located inside the computer case on the motherboard. It is sometimes called the brain of the computer, and its job is to carry out commands.
What Is A CPU/Processor?
An all-in-one design, with a built-in monitor, keyboard, touchpad (which replaces the mouse), and speakers.
What Is A Laptop?
Designed to be placed on a desk, and they're typically made up of a few different parts, including the computer case, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
What Is A Desktop Computer?
Allows you to type and communicate online with key caps on it.
What Is A Keyboard?
a type of input device, or a device that receives information from a user. You can connect this to record sound or talk with someone else over the internet.
What Is A Microphone?
the computer's main circuit board. It's where everything is plugged into.
What Is A Motherboard?
Allows you to use the laptop when it's not plugged in.
What Is A Battery?
Any part of your computer that has a physical structure, such as the keyboard or mouse. It also includes all of the computer's internal parts
What Is Hardware?
Works with a video card, located inside the computer case, to display images and text on the screen.
What Is A Monitor?
A type of input device that can record videos and take pictures.
What Is A Web Cam?
Where your software, documents, and other files are stored. This is long-term storage, aka data is saved even if you turn the computer off or unplug it.
What Is A Hard Drive?
USB, PS/2, Serial, Sockets, VGA, Firewall, Modem
What Ports Are In A Laptop?
Any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do and how to do it.
What Is Software?
Pad that lets you control the pointer by making a drawing motion with your finger.
What Is A Touchpad?
Lets you capture pictures and videos in a digital format.
What Are Digital Cameras?
Responsible for what you see on the monitor. Most computers have this built into the motherboard instead of having a separate one.
What Is A GPU/Video Card?
A touch-sensitive pad that lets you control the pointer by making a drawing motion with your finger.
What Is A Touchpad?
Desktop, Laptop, Tablet Computers, Servers, Smartphones, Wearables, Game Consoles, & TVs.
What Are Different Types Of Computers/Devices?
Has a ball that can rotate freely. Instead of moving the device like a mouse, you can roll the ball with your thumb to move the pointer.
What Is A Trackball?
Has connection ports that are made to fit specific devices.
What Is On The Back Of A Computer Case?
Your system's short-term memory. Whenever your computer performs calculations, it temporarily stores the data in this until it is needed.
What Is Ram?
This is designed to be used with that specific type of laptop.
What Is An AC Adapter?