8.1 Computer Systems
Starter / PlenaryRESOURCES
What is a computer system? ..The answer is..HERE
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Computer Systems 8.1
- Look at who Ada Lovelace and Tim Berners-lee are and discus their contributions to computer science - is one of them more important than the other? Homework write up a report on both then declare your winner!
- Starter: quiz. Understand how Data goes into a computer system, its is processed and sometimes stored then output as useful information or applications or actions by controlled devices Homework: How does a Computer work??Binary: Recognise the difference between Hardware & Software. Understand that Computer hardware are Peripherals (Systems,2.1 – Peripherals). Students need to recognise that the Language of computers is Binary and that this is represented as 0's and 1's. Binary is in effect simple switches (transistor) being turned on and off with an electric pulse, there are 300,000,000 million in a CPU every second!!! Homework: Quiz on computer systems