Microsoft Is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. ...

Microsoft Word

Is a word processor designed by Microsoft

A Word Processor

• is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material.

• Examples-

– Notepad

– Microsoft Word

Vocabulary 1. Microsoft - Is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops,

manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing

devices

2. Multinational - operating or having investments in several countries

3. Corporation - a company recognized by law as a single body with its own powers and

liabilities, separate from individual members. Corporations perform many of the

functions of private business, governments, and educational bodies

4. Manufacturers - a factory, person, or organization that produces finished goods from

raw materials

5. Software - programs and applications that can be run on a computer system, e.g. word

processing, Notepad or database packages

6. Devices - a tool or machine designed to perform a particular task or function

7. Hardware -the equipment and devices that make up a computer system

8. Formatting -the way in which something is presented, organized, or arranged

9. Microsoft Words - Is a word processor designed by Microsoft

10. Computer Application - a computer program or piece of software designed to perform

a specific task

Summarizing and Study Strategy Assignment

• Create one or the other using the vocabulary words

A Pyramid Map Or A Frayer Model

Defenition

Use it in a sentence

Vocabulary Word

Picture

Definition Picture

Use it in a sentence How does it effect

you.

Vocabulary Word

Hardware

• Hardware of a modern Personal Computer. 1. Monitor 2. Motherboard 3. CPU 4. RAM 5. Expansion cards 6. Power supply 7. Optical disc drive 8. Hard disk drive 9. Keyboard 10. Mouse

Your PC (Personal Computer) is a system, consisting of many components. Some of

those components, like Windows XP, and all your other programs, are software. The stuff you can actually see and touch, and would likely break if you threw it out a fifth-story window, is hardware.

Computer Software •Computers use 2 types of software:

•operating systems

•application programs

•Operating systems control the computer and its components.

•Examples-Windows 2007, Window XP, Mac OS X,MS-DOS

•Application programs- gives the computer instructions for carrying out a specific task.

•Examples- Computer games, word processors, and drawing programs. They are usually stored on CD’s

• 1st-Computer hardware, does all of the physical work computers are known for.

• 2nd Computer software, tells the hardware what to do and how to do it.

Input Devices

• Any machine that feeds data into a computer keyboard, mouse, etc.......

Output Devices

• machine capable of representing information from a computer. For example a screen, printers, etc.......

Computer Memory

• The place where programs are stored

– Two types of memory

• ROM-read only memory

• RAM- random access memory-the most important type of memory in a computer.

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Things To look for while your reading and taking notes pgs 298-310

1. Who was the first computer programmer? 2. What was the term use to figure out problems when computers

where not working properly? 3. What was the name of the world’s 1st computer? 4. Who developed the first computer 5. List 3 computer hardware components/parts 6. What is the word for each acronym?

– KB =___________________________ – MB=___________________________ – GB=___________________________ – TB=____________________________ – PC=____________________________

7. What is Computer memory ? 8. What is another name for the central processing unit (CPU). 9. What are the two types of software computers use?