1. Computers & Logic An Overview

2. Hardware Hardware is the equipment, or the devices, associated with a computer. For a computer to be useful, however, it needs more than equipment; a computer needs to be given instructions.

3. Software The instructions that tell the computer what to do are called software, or programs, and written by programmers.

4. Four operations Together, computer hardware and software accomplish four major operations. 1.Input 2.Processing 3.Output 4.Storage

5. Input Hardware devices that perform input include keyboards, mice, etc. Through these devices, data, or facts, enter the computer system.

6. Processing Processing data items may involve organizing them, checking them for accuracy, or performing mathematical operations on them

7. CPU The piece of hardware that performs these sort of tasks is the central processing unit, or CPU.

8. Output After data items have been processed, the resulting information is sent to a printer, monitor, or some other output device so people can view, interpret or use the results.

9. Storage The majority of the time computer output is placed on a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, magnetic disk, etc.

10. Programming You write computer instructions in a computer programming language such as Visual Basic, Pascal, Java, C#, C++, etc.

11. Syntax Computer programming syntax are the rules that govern a specific programming language. Like English and Spanish have rules and guidelines to follow so do programming languages.

12. Programming Process 1.Understand the problem 2.Plan the logic 3.Code the program 4.Translate the program into machine language 5.Test the program 6.Put the program into production