Ms. R’s Computer Class

As you research the computer you are creating an advertisement for you will encounter some new vocabulary will be thinking about how what defines a computer and how they work. I have found some websites that are helpful in explaining things is simple terms. Take a look at these sites: Computers and How They Work [...]

What did the first computer look like? When was the first computer built? Who invented computers? We will spend the next couple of weeks looking at old computers and discovering how and why they worked. Did you know that some computers used to be as big as a room? Or that some computers were made [...]

We are currently researching different kinds of computers and looking at what is “under the hood”. As we do the research, we are coming across – and learning about- new parts of the computer and what they do. The two principal characteristics of a computer are : It responds to a specific set of instructions [...]