Basic computer class

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Basic Computer Class
Welcome!
Introductions
– name, where you live
– what you want out of
class

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Very Brief History of
Computers
1943 - first computer ENIAC -
Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer
1943 - IBM - International
Business Machines -
established to build business
machines.
1977 - Apple II launched -
personal computer (pc)
1981 - IBM personal computer,
marketed windows
Now - Faster and smaller
personal computers

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What makes up a
computer?
What is Hardware?
Anything you can
touch
Hardware - physical
components of a
computer system,
including any
peripheral equipment
such as printers,
modems, mouse
devices. Computer
User’s Dictionary

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Monitor
Monitor - The box that
contains the screen
where images and
text are displayed.
Device on which images
generated by the
computer’s video
adapter. Computer
User’s Dictionary

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Keyboard
Keyboard - device
that has keys that
enables one to type
text and issue
commands to the
computer.
Keyboard - In computing a
set of switches that
resembles a typewriter
keyboard and that conveys
information from a user to a
computer. Computer User’s
Dictionary

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Mouse
Mouse - device that
points and selects
text or icons.
Mouse - A common
pointing device. To
select items or choose
commands on the
screen, the user
presses one of the
mouse’s buttons
producing a mouse
click.Computer User’s
Dictionary

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Central Processing Unit
(CPU)
CPU - The brains of
the computer.
CPU - The computational
and control unit of a
computer. Executes
instructions and to
transfer information to
and from other
resources. Computer
User’s Dictionary

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Printer
Printer - device that
allows one to print text
and pictures.
Printer - a computer
peripheral that puts text
or computer-generated
image on paper.
Computer User’s
Dictionary.

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Modulator Demodulator
(Modem)
Modem - device that allows one to
connect a computer to the
Internet either by phone line or
by cable. The modem acts like a
translator that for the digital
computer.
Modem - a communications device
that enables a computer to
transmit information over a
standard telephone or cable line.
Computer User’s Dictionary
The Modem is usually built into your
computer, you don’t see it.
A digital system is one that
uses numbers, especially
binary numbers, for input,
processing, transmission,
storage, or display, rather
than a continuous spectrum
of values (an analog system)
or non-numeric symbols
such as letters or icons.

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Software
Software - anything you
CAN’T touch. The
instructions for the
hardware.
Software - computer
programs; instructions that
make hardware work. Two
main types of software are
system software (operating
systems, which control the
workings of computer and
applications, such as word
processors, that perform
tasks for the user. Computer
User’s Dictionary

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The Mouse: The drivers
wheel of Microsoft Windows
Using the mouse -
moving the mouse
moves the arrow
across the screen
mouse has two buttons
left and right
left button - selects items
right button - creates
drop down menus

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The Mouse: Clicking
Clicking - term used
when one presses down
on left mouse button to
select.
A “click” - press on the
left button.
A “double click” - is
pressing twice on the
left mouse button
A “right click” - is pressing
once on the right mouse
button.

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Mouse Techniques
Placing your hand on the mouse.
Place your hand on the mouse so that
your index finger is resting above
the left mouse button and your
middle finger is resting on the right
button.
Double Clicking
While your hand is resting on the
mouse, use your pointing finger to
do a quick and light tap tap on the
left mouse button. It is a very light
tap tap, with less than a second
between taps.

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Lab 1: Moving the mouse
Without Clicking!
Step 1 - Move the mouse
so that the arrow on the
screen is on the bottom
left hand side of the
screen.
Step 2 - Move the arrow to
the top right of the
screen.
Step 3 - Get used to the
feel of the mouse, and
try to put the arrow on
objects.

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Starting a Program
Double clicking on an
icon will launch a
program.
(icon is a picture
representation of a
program)
There are other ways to
start a program, that we
will learn later.

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Lab 2: Starting a Program
1. Put your mouse arrow
on the solitaire icon
2. Double click
Double Clicking starts the
program
3. You should see the
solitaire game open
(see picture to the right)

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The Start Button and
Start Menu
The Start button on the bottom left hand
corner of your screen on your monitor.
When this button is clicked, a menu appears.
This is called the Start Menu.
Without clicking roll your mouse up and down
this menu.
Notice on the little black triangles to the far
right of Search, Settings, Documents, and
Programs. When you see a black
triangle, that means there is a another
menu that will expand on the right.
Try it.
There is a technique to this, you must roll
your mouse straight across to the right to
keep the menu displayed.

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Lab 2: Starting a Program the
second way
1. Click the Start button again (if
your menu disappears, click
the Start button again)
2. Roll your mouse up to
programs
3. Roll your mouse straight
across to the right (if you don’t
your menu will disappear)
4. Roll your mouse up to Games
5. Roll your mouse straight to the
right
6. Roll your mouse down the
menu until you reach Solitaire,
now click it.

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A Window
Window -A section of the
computers display that
shows the program
currently be used. For
example the Solitaire
window.
(see picture to the right)

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Toolbars
Notice the bottom part of
your screen, you should
see a long gray strip to
the right of the Start
button.
(picture to the top right is the
large view of the taskbar,
taskbar is circled)
This long gray strip is called
a toolbar. It shows what
programs you have up
(notice the word Solitaire
is written in a gray
rectangle)
(picture on bottom right is the
enlarged view of the
taskbar)

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Buttons
Buttons in Windows are:
Square objects that can
look like they can be
pushed, they usually have
shadow around them that
makes them look raised.
You click with the mouse.
For example:
the minimize, maximize
and close buttons
(see picture to the right)

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Working with a Window
How to: ___ a window
minimize - minus button
maximize - square button
close - X button
See picture to the top
right, this is a
magnified view of the
top right corner of the
window.
On the bottom right is
the whole window

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Lab 3: Minimizing and
Restoring a Window
1. Click the minus button in the
top right hand side of the
window of the solitaire game
(See picture to the top right)
2. Notice: the solitaire game
disappeared
3. Look on the toolbar at the
bottom of your screen, find the
word Solitaire in a rectangle
(See picture in the middle)
4. Click anywhere on the
rectangle that has the word
Solitaire. (This restores the
window back on to your
screen) (See picture at the
bottom right)

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Lab 4: Maximizing a Window
1. In the top right hand corner of the
Solitaire window, click the button
that is in between the minus and
the X, it should have square on it.
This is the maximize button.
(See picture to the top right, square is
circled)
2. Notice this enlarges the Solitaire
window to the size of your screen
(See picture in the middle)
3. Click the square again, it looks
like two squares, because it
shrinks the window down to a
smaller window within your main
window.(See picture to the bottom
right)

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Lab 5: Closing a Window
1. Click the X in the right
hand corner
(See picture top right)
2. Notice that the game has
disappeared and it is not
located on the toolbar at
the bottom of the screen.
3. You have closed the
program
4. To bring back Solitaire you
must double click on the
Solitaire icon.
(See picture on bottom right)

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Questions?
Computers are
machines that serve
you the user.
Sometimes they work
properly, sometimes
they are very
frustrating.
Everything is a
learning process.