COMPUTER BASICS

Prepared by: Miss Aida

WHAT IS A COMPUTER?

A computer is an electronic device

that manipulates information, or
data. It has the ability to store,
retrieve, and process data.
Usage of Computers
Education: Computer for Teachers/Lecturers

• To educated and teach students in more powerful and creative

ways.
• Images, PDF, videos
Education: Types of Software for online class

• For online class -

Education: Computer for Students

• Can learn and acquire different skills for personal and professional
growth. YouTube, daily motion, Newsletter, PDF, PPT, blogs,
and websites, etc.
Education

• Can learn and acquire different skills for personal and professional
growth.
Government Offices - To reduce human
workload

To send and receive Available for Leave applications and

mails for faster mathematical and termination of services
communications and to financial calculations to are done via emails or
track the record of avoid human errors. website
communications.
Text/Documents/
Images
Banking - Can perform billions and billions
of instruction per second

ONLINE ATM BIOMETRIC

BANKING (Withdraw & SCANNERS
(Digital Deposit cash) (Attendance)
transactions)
Sports

Store data and analyze the history of Information related to games and
games and specific players. sports is available on the internet

SPORTS
Maintaining the diet and nutrition of
players - diet charts can be allocated
Analyzing games
to a specific player on specific
demands.
Business
A tool to communicate with others who are far away.

For project presentations

Financial transaction using app and software

An online meeting with more than one person

Payroll software for gathering information of their employees

Creating and Maintaining Bills for clients and customers.

What are the Five Advantages of Computer?

• Speed
• Accuracy
• Online Trading
• Online Education | Distance Learning
• Forecasting Weather, and Predicting Earthquakes, Volcano
Eruptions
What are the Five Disadvantages of
Computer?

• Health Issues
• Virus and Hacking Attacks
• Negative Effect on Environment
• Spread of Violence and Hatred
• Online Cyber Crimes
• Data and Information violation
MAIN APPLICATIONS

PAGES NUMBERS KEYNOTES

TYPES OF PERSONAL
COMPUTERS
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Desktop VS Laptop
 Desktop Laptop

Cost Cheaper Expensive

Portability No Yes

Processor More powerful Can be powerful but will be more expensive

Internal Storage Can have multiple internal storage drives Only one internal drive

Assembly & Set Up Hard and requires more space to set up Easy to assemble & requires little time

Keyboard Full-size keyboards, include a number Sometimes doesn’t have a number pad
pad. No limit
Screen Size Can be 19” or larger Range from 10” to 17”

Power Usage Higher wattage power supply and Less power usage and have battery
depends on power supply
Upgrading Easy to upgrade – have more space
Input Output Devices

• An input device is something you

connect to a computer that sends
information into the computer. An
output device is something you connect
to a computer that has information
sent to it.
HOW DO ELECTRONIC MACHINES WORK?
HOW DO COMPUTERS WORK?
Examples
GUESSING
GAME
(Determine input & output
devices)
 SOFTWARE

A set of instructions, data or

programs used to operate
computers and execute
specific tasks.
 HOW IS SOFTWARE CREATED AND HOW
DOES IT WORK?

A computer programmer (or several

computer programmers) write the
instructions using a programming
language, defining how the software
should operate on structured data. The
program may then be interpreted,
or compiled into machine code.
Hardware VS Software