Computing English
License 1
Instructor: Mr. Fall
Course objectives
• Learn the difference between hardware and software
• Discover the various types of computers and their roles
• See what’s on the front, back, and inside of a computer
• Learn about the various ports on a computer
• Understand what determines a computer’s performance
• See what you should look for when buying a computer
1. How is a computer organized?
A computer is organized around two parts: upper part called the monitor
and lower part called the system unit
2. What is the main part of the computer?
The system unit is the main part of the computer
3. What is the software?
It is all the parts you can see, but cannot touch
4. What is the hardware?
All the parts you can see and touch
5. Why is the system unit called the main part?
Because it contains the guts and brains of the computer
6. What are the components of the hardware?
They are: monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, the
printer, the scanner, and system unit
7. What are the types of monitor?
There are two types of monitor including the flat
panel monitor and the
8. What is a keyboard?
9. What do we need a keyboard for?
We need a keyboard to type in a text
10. How many keys are there on the keyboard?
There are 101 or 114 keys on the keyboard
11. What are the types of keys on the keyboard?
There are five types of key on the keyboard including: function
keys, alphanumeric keys, special keys, screen navigation keys,
calculator keys.
12. What are the types of keyboard?
There are two types of keyboard: standard keyboard and
ergonomic keyboard
13. What is a mouse?
The mouse is an input device (pointing device)
Trackball, joysticks, and mouse
Touchscreen, light pen and the digitizer ( drawing devices)
14. What do we need a mouse for?
We need a mouse to move the cursor, slider, pointer on the screen
15. How many parts are there on the mouse?
There are three parts on the mouse including: the click right button, click left button
and the scroll wheel. (Roulette) scroll up and scroll down, roll, beam
Upgrade/update/upload/download/downgrade/customize/desktop background /GUI
(graphic user interface) save as/ install/uninstall
16. What are the types of mouse?
There are three types of mouse: wheel mouse, optical mouse, touchpad mouse
17. What is a printer?
It is a hard-copy output device
18. What are the types of printer?
There are two types of printer: the laser printer and the inkjet printer
19. What is a scanner?
It is a data scanning device
20. What do we need it for?
We need it to convert hard copies into soft copies.
21. What are the types of scanner?
There are two types of scanner: the flatbed scanner and the handheld
scanner
21. What are the functions of a computer?
The computer has three main functions including input
process/storage/ and output
22. What is on the
front of computer?
23What is inside the
computer?
24. What is on the
back of the computer?
[Link] are the computer devices
The computer devices are :
1. The input devices,
2. the output devices
3. the storing devices ( computer memories)
26. What are the input devices?
The input devices are:
1. The keyboard
2. The point and drawing devices
3. The data scanning devices
4. The speech recognition devices
27. What are the output devices
The ouput devices are:
1. Hard-copy output devices
2. Soft- copy output devices
28. What are the computer
memories
1. The primary memories: RAM/ROM/HDD
2. The secondary memories: DVD/ CD/FLOPPY DISK/SD CARD/USB
29. What are the types of computer
1. Macrocomputers: supercomputer, mainfraime …..
2. Minicomputers : networked computer, server
3. Microcomputer: desktop , macintosh , laptop, PDA, networked
computer,
30. What are the types
of expansion cards
1. Modem card
2. Network card
3. Graphic card
4. Sound card
5. Additional port
[Link] are the factors
that affect a computer
performance?
1. CPU speed
2. Amount of Ram
3. Type of video card
4. Hard disk drive speed
5. Free hard disk space
6. Hard disk fragmentation