Computer Parts
Google Docs, The Sims 4, Mobile Apps and YouTube are all examples of this part of a computer system.
What is software?
RAM for short, these electronic circuits in a computer that can store code and data of running programs.
What is Random Access Memory?
A system that has a base-2, using only bits 0 and 1
The first 5 numbers in the binary chart (pattern).
What is 1 2 4 8 16?
Etiquette (manners) for the Net. (email, message boards, chat, social media, etc.)
What is Netiquette?
Any physical part of a computer.
What is hardware?
This is the brains of the computer. This is where most calculations take place. Also called the CPU.
What is the Central Processing Unit.
Acronym for the Universal Serial Bus, an interface connection to a personal computer.
What is USB?
Typically a tiny square or dot which contains a single point of color of a larger image, short for "picture element".
What is (a) pixel?
The study of computers and computational systems.
What is Computer Science?
Input or Output: Keyboards, scanner, and microphones
What is input?
A printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other device, with connectors into which other circuit boards can be slotted.
What is the motherboard?
A base-10 system that we use every day, consisting of the symbols 0 through 9
What is the Decimal Number System?
T or F: The number 1 is equal to false.
What is false?
T or F: PROPER Netiquette would be to write in all caps without punctuation and argue with others on a blog site.
What is False?
What is input, storage, processing, and output? (must be in this order)
A high-capacity, self-contained storage device containing a read-write mechanism plus one or more hard disks, inside a sealed unit.
What is the (a) hard drive?
The smallest unit of storage. Represents one-digit (1 or 0)
What is a bit?
Considered the first person to create an algorithm and saw the potential to do more with the Analytical Engine created by Charles Babbage.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer.
What is an algorithm?
Microsoft XP, MacOS, and Linux are all examples are this.
What are (is an) operating system?
A printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot on a computer motherboard to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus.
Data that changes discreetly through a finite set of possible values
What is Digital Data?
The process to help you solve problems by decomposing a problem into smaller pieces, identifying variables and patterns, and creating algorithms.
What is computational thinking?
"When the green flag is clicked, the sprite will more 200 spaces to the right. It will then increase in size by 10% and change the color effect by 20%." is an example of this part of planning your code.
What is a pseudocode?
This is used to connect a computer to the internet through a wireless connection.
What is a router?
Converts AC power from the wall outlet into the lower voltages of DC power required to power all components of the computer.
What is the Power Supply?
Greater than a Bit, represents 8-bits (digits). For example: 01010101
What is a Byte?
The base-2 (binary) number 10110 converted to the base-10 (decimal) system.
What is 22?
The combination of numbers, words, symbols, and formatting to tell a computer what to do in a way that it can understand.
What is programming language?
This is used to connect a computer to the internet through a wired connection.
What is an Ethernet cord or cable?
A read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board.
What is ROM?
Values that change smoothly, rather than in discrete intervals, over time. For example, the pitch and volume of a live concert.
What is Analog Data?
The base-2 (binary) number 110101 converted to the base-10 (decimal) system
What is 53?
A diagram that outlines the steps in a process.
What is a flowchart?