Understand Computers in Half an Hour! Computer Basics

Learn where computers came from -

• Learn about where the word "computer" came from!

• Learn about the "Father of Computers" and how he invented the first ever computer!

• Learn about "The First Programmer" and how she realised how incredible computers could become!

• Learn about the Analytical Engine - the first ever design for a computer

• Learn about the first ever computers and how they were destroyed in World War 2.

• Learn about the first computer in the USA, which was controlled by 6 women!

• Learn how transistors changed computers forever.

• Learn about how computers evolved from huge machines run by the military, to the personal computers we use today!

Learn how computers work -

• Learn what hardware is

• Learn what software is

• Learn how computers think using binary code!

• Learn how programming languages make it easy to talk to computers!

• Learn what a motherboard is and what they do.

• Learn what a CPU is and how it helps computers to think!

• Learn what hard drives are, and how they help computers to remember.

• Learn what RAM is, and why it's so important for computers!