COMPUTER BASICS

Computer Basics

OMC UpperPrimary School

Balajinagar , Ongole

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Look at this picture of a computer

A computer is made up of
many parts.
Let’s explore the parts to see
if you know what they are
called!
The Monitor
The
monitor looks like a TV and lets you
see your work and your files.
Monitors are three kinds.
1.CRT monitor
2. LCD monitor
3. LED monitor.
What is a monitor?
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What does a monitor look like?
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How many kinds of monitors are there?
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What are they?
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Draw the picture of monitor.

The CPU
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CPU stands for “Central Processing Unit”.

They contain the brains of the computer.
They can be desktop models that the monitor
sits on top of, or tower models that stand up tall.
The CPU is made with three parts.
The are 1. Control Unit 2. Arithmetic and logical unit
3. Memory Unit.
What is a CPU?
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What do the CPU contains?
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How many parts are there in the CPU ?
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What are the parts in the CPU ?
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Draw the picture of CPU.

Floppy disk Drive

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The CPU has places to insert disks. One

kind of disk drive is a floppy disk drive. A
floppy disk drive reads information from a
very thin, floppy disk inside a hard plastic
case. Floppy disks can hold up to 1.44
megabytes of information.

Give the name of a disk drive placed inside the CPU.

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How many Megabytes can a floppy disk hold ?

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What does a floppy disk contain ?

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CD-ROM Disk Drive

CD-ROM stands for Compact Disk-
Read Only Memory. They are flat,
shiny disks that store information.
Most new computers have CD-RW
drives.
CD-RW Stands for Compact Disk-
ReWrite. This type of disk allows you to write information to
it, as well as read from it. Most can hold upto 700 megabytes
of information.
What is CD-ROM?

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What is CD-RW?

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What is the memory capacity of CD-ROM?

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DVD DRIVE/BURNER
The newest computers come with the
option of a DVD drive. A DVD (Digital
Video Disc) looks just like a CD, but
holds much more information!
They can store 4.7 gigabytes of data!
What is a DVD drive ?
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How much memory it can hold ?
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Draw the Image of Compact disc and DVD disk.

FLASH DRIVE
A Flash Drive is a relatively new storage
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device. It’s like a mini portable hard drive!

You plug it into the USB (Universal Serial
Bus) port on the front of newer
Computers and you can save to it! It is also referred as
Pendrive. It is available in 4 gigabytes, 8 gigabytes,
16 gigabytes, 32 gigabytes, 64 gigibytes, 124 gigabytes.

What is a mini portable hard drive ?

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What is USB?
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What are the various memories of flash drive ?
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What is the other name of flash drive ?
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Input--This is when information is entered into a computer.

Some common input devices include
Keyboard

Scanner Mouse

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Output--This is the information that comes out of a computer

after it has been processed. The information comes out on
output devices such as a printer or computer monitor.
Monitor Printer

Processing--This is when the information is handled by the

computer’s brain, known as the CPU (Central Processing Unit).

Microprocessor Central rocessing Unit

Draw the flow chart of working of a computer ?

Give the names of input devices .

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Give the names of output devices.
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What is a computer brain ?
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What happens inside a CPU?
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Input Devices

The keyboard is probably the most used input device. It

operates a lot like a typewriter, but has many additional keys
that let it do special things a typewriter can’t.

Special Keyboard Keys

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The flashing light on the computer

screen is called the cursor. This
cursor can be moved up and down or
left and right by pressing the 4 keys
that have arrows on them. These arrow
keys are called cursor keys.

What is a cursor?
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How many cursor keys are there in the keyboard ?
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How can we move cursor ?
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Which cursor key we have to press to move the cursor
towards right side ?
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Draw the picture of cursor keys.

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Shift Key
When this key is pressed at the
same time you press a letter key,
a capital letter appears on your
screen. When it is held down when
you press a key with a symbol and
number, the top symbol appears on
the computer screen. There are
two shift keys on your keyboard.
The left shift key and the right shift key.
How can we type capital letters?
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Which letters appears on the screen when we held down the
shift key ?
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Draw the picture of shift key and identify the two shift keys
in your keyboard.

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The Backspace Key

When this key is pressed,
the cursor moves back one
space to the left on your
computer screen. This key
is very helpful when you
press the wrong letter
or number. You can erase
your mistakes.
What is the use of backspace key?
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In which direction the cursor moves if we use back
space key ?
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How many times we has to press backspace key to
erase if you wrongly typed the word “key”?
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Draw the picture of backspace key and identify it in
your keyboard.

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