The computer

a) Which part of the computer is referred at as its `brain’? ~ Answer is CPU- Central processing.

b) The hard parts that make up a computer are called hardware is that true? - Yes.

c) In computers GIGO means that if you feed wrong information to the commuter it will give wrong results. What is the full form of GIGO? - Garbage in garbage out.

d) A computer can become infected and stop working properly. What gets into a computer and causes this to happen? – Virus.

Name the kind of program you would use to prevent a computer from getting infected- an anti virus.

e) A computer stores information in the form of bytes. One byte is very, very tiny.

Since a computer needs to store very huge amounts of information, it uses many, many bytes. Such huge numbers of bytes are measured in KB, MB. What are the full forms of these letters?-kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes.

f) You count and do sums using ten digits those are 0 to 8 and 9. This is called the decimal system.

Computers use only two digits to do their work- o and 1 only. What is this system called? - Binary.

g) The soft parts of the computer are called software. It is that true?-~ answer is no- computer programs are the software.

h) What does the `e’ in email, ezine and ecard stand for? - Electronic.

The net work

*How you seen a spider’s web? Do you think the internet is called `the web’?

A group of computers linked to each other is called a network. These computers can share information among themselves.

The internet is the biggest net work in the world. Billions of computer as all over the world are linked to it.

Part of the internet is called the World Wide Web. It is made up of many different websites.

Each website has pages of information. A page on a website is called a webpage.

Each websites has an address. You use a program called a browser to find and show a website on your computer.

• A) Name two browsers – internet explore.
• B) Name two sites you visit often- Netscape.