ICT Functional Skills Input, Output & Storage Hardware and Software Sarah Bradley
Computers are everywhere We use computers every day. Computers need to receive information to work. Inputting is often pressing buttons. Outputs are often a noise or something shown on a screen.
A Desktop Computer System When we're using a computer: 1. Information goes in 2. It is processed 3. Information comes out Information is also stored. We've been using computer hardware like this, now we're going to look how information gets into and out of a computer via input and output devices.
Can you define these? What is.... an input device a processing device an output device a storage device Can you name examples of each?
Inside a computer CD/DVD drive CPU (under the fan) Hard drive
Hardware and Software Everything we've talked about so far is hardware. It's hard. We can touch it - the physical parts of a computer. Software can't be touched - it's the programs that we run on a computer. There are 2 types of software: 1. Systems software : is in charge of running the computer - like Windows, IOS, Android. It provides a user interface. 2. Application software : for doing tasks. It includes web browsers like Chrome or Edge, Office software like Excel or Word, games like Call of Duty or Tetris.
Quiz time! https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zcxgr82/test