AN

ELECTRONIC
DEVICE,
THAT
PERFORMS
FOUR BASIC
OPERATIONS

INPUT PROCESSING
WHAT IS A
COMPUTER?

OUTPUT STORAGE
 COMPONENTS
OF A COMPUTER

SOFTWARE HARDWARE

SYSTEM SOFTWARE APPLICATION

SOFTWARE CONSIST ALL
Programs that COMPUTER
Program designed that HARDWARE.
control or maintain
allow people to
the opertions and perform specific tasks e.g:motherboard,
its devices. using computer such as mouse, printer,
writing a letter. keyboard
 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STRIKE A
KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD?
The system unit
A user presses the capital letter converts the scan
T (Shift + T keys) on the The scan code for the capital code for capital letter
keyboard, which in turn creates letter T is sent to the system T to its ASCII binary
a special code, called a scan unit. code (01010100) and
code, for the capital letter T stores it in memory
for processing

After processing the binary code

for the capital letter letter T is
converted to an image and
displayed on the output device.