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Instead participants will rely on the shared knowledge within the group. Please post anything you know in the comments below.
When you have spent two hours on the computer trying to figure out what is going on you are entitled to find a blank sheet of paper, write ‘HURRAH!’ on it in big letters and then pin it to the wall as your certificate of certification.
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The button that turns it on is towards the back on the right hand side.
40 years ago in primary school my maths teacher raved about a book called “We built our own computers”. I remember it described a pile of matchboxes with various numbers of beans in. This was a computer.
I rest my case. I am lost.
As an IT teacher, I should be able to post lots and lots of things here – but that would probably be:
a) boring
b) not in the spirit of excitement and self-discovery
However, I can summarise the main things that a computer can actually do, when you get right down to it:
1) get a number from somewhere
2) add it to another number
3) compare the result to yet another number (often 0 or 1)
4) put the result somewhere else
And that’s about it (everything else you see is all an illusion)
No no no, the button that turns it on is towards the back on the LEFT hand side.
Little Amy
Oh you poor Micro-soft person, you.
Perhaps Dave should run a course on how to be a “cool” geek.
I learned this years ago from a desk calendar with a “thought for the day” on each page. One day had, “When you learn to use a computer you learn to curse.” No comment.
I believe in the dim days before computers the quote went, “When you learn to drive you learn to curse.” Of course, that’s still true for many.
I use a computer for many tasks. Perfecting my swearing; using as a javelin when annoyed; improving my kicking skills; using for storing disks, teacups and assorted things; as a means for world conquest.
The three basic parts of a computer are input/output devices (mouse, keyboard. monitor, printer etc), storage devices (fixed disk, removable media) and the CPU (central processing unit). The CPU does all the calculations. These days the CPU is synonomous with the Motherboard. This is the large printed circuit board mounted inside the box that your computer peripherals plug into. The Motherboard is so named not only because it is so large but also because it has the potential to have (Daughter) cards plugged into it. Memory cards are plugged into the Motherboard as short term storage for use in running programs loaded from long term storage devices.
