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What is a Computer?
What is the information processing cycle?
Input Process Output Storage Communication
Introduction to Computing
Memory
Consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions
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Light travels at about 286,000 miles per second. In one billionth of a second, an electronic signal travels almost 12 inches. A supercomputer can perform more than 12.3 trillion instructions per second. If a person did one arithmetic operation a second without stopping, it would take him how much time to perform the number of operations a supercomputer can do in one second ?? More than 211,800 years !!!
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Storage device
Records and retrieves items to and from a storage medium
Handheld computers
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Transmission Media
Cables Telephone lines Satellites
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Summary
We have studied and understood:
A Web page contains text, graphics, sound, video, and links to other Web pages
You can share information by creating Web pages or posting photos on a photo sharing community
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