Computers
What do they do?
What exactly IS a computer?
- A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information or "data".
Computers use a combination of hard ware and software
1. A hard ware is:
A physical part of the computer which includes all all of the internal components and also the external parts like the monitor and the keyboard.
2. A software is:
Any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do, such as:
a web browser, mediaplayer,or a work proceser.
A computer sees information as ones "1" and ceros "0", but it knows how to combine them into more complex things. Such as:
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