How Computers Work?

  • What is a Computer?
  • What are the various buttons and ports on the Computer?
  • What’s inside a Computer?
  • How Laptop Computers differ from traditional Desktop Computers?
  • Is my Smart Phone a computer too?
  • What is an Operating System? How they work?
  • What is Internet and how to use it?
  • What is Cloud and how it works?
  • How to keep my Computer clean and do basic trouble-shooting?

If these questions are your questions, it would be a good idea to complete this course: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/computerbasics/. While there are 20+ lessons in the course, feel free to access only the lessons you are interested in.

Now, watch these videos from code.org to consolidate your understanding.

  1. Introducing How Computers Work
  2. What makes a Computer, a Computer?
  3. Binary and Data
  4. Circuits and Logic
  5. CPU, Memory, Input and Output
  6. Hardware and Software
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