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• A new year’s resolution is a promise that
you make for yourself in the new year.
What resolution(s) do you want to make?
Why do you want to make them? Come up
with at least 3 New Year’s Resolutions.
• Hand-written 1 Page for an Upstamp (20
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My Stuff (Teacher) vs. Your Stuff
(student)
Computer
Guts!
What do computers do?
Help to provide
answers
__________ to real
problems
Life __________
By running programs
________
that help to answer these problems
Z1 Konrad Zuse (1938)
Mechanical
 ENIAC
John P. Eckert (1946)
Vacuum Tubes
 COMPUTER
A programmable
machine that works with
Data
______________
DATA =
information
 COMPUTER
A programmable
processes
machine that ________
input
an __________ and
output
gives an ________
How a COMPUTER works

Input Processing Output

Input = “Put in” a
problem
processing =
Calculating an answer
output =
“Put out”
an answer
“To give an
answer”
How a COMPUTER works

Input Processing Output

• Is this machine a computer? Why or
why not. Discuss and prepare to
respond.
 How a COMPUTER works
The computer “thinks
about the answer” and
performs the calculation
What’s the The computer provides
problem? the answer

Input Processing Output

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Input devices:
Parts of a
computer that
allow a user to
________
input data into
the _________.
computer
output devices:
Parts of a
computer that
output
______ data for the
experience
user to _________.