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1/22 - Computer Parts • Roll call • Comments on progress reports • lecture: computer parts – outside – inside – REVIEW • group project information • preparations for 1/25
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1/22 - Computer Parts
• Roll call• Comments on progress reports• lecture: computer parts
– outside– inside– REVIEW
• group project information• preparations for 1/25
Progress report - recurring themes
• Don’t know people in project group
• Scared of group project - web design ?!?
• Scared of tests & quizzes - what type of questions? How much detail to know?
• Don’t understand the jargon
The outside
• Monitor• keyboard• mouse• speakers• printer• floppy drive• CD-ROM drive
The outside: the monitor
• “GUI”: graphical user interface
• Screen
• Size: diagonal
• “dot pitch”
• “resolution”
The outside: the keyboard
• “Windows keyboard”
• “104-key keyboard”
• “ergonomic”
The outside: the mouse
• “standard”
• “3-button”
• trackball
• touchpad
• “serial mouse”
• “scrolling mouse”
The outside: the speakers
• “integrated”
• “detached”
• “stereo”
The outside: the floppy drive
• 3.5”
• diskette drive
The outside: the CD-ROM drive
• Speaker jack
• stop/eject button
• play/pause button
The outside: other stuff
• Status lights
• external modem
• power buttons
The backside: the plot thickens
• Power supply
• network card
• sound card
• parallel ports
• serial ports
• keyboard port
The backside: the power supply
• Plug
• cooling fan
• voltage switch
The backside: the network card
• “RJ-45 jack”
• “BNC connector”
• “15-pin connector”
• “LAN”
• “Ethernet”
• “Co-axial cable”
The backside: the sound card
• “Mic”
• “speaker ports”
• “MIDI port”
• “External audio”
The backside: parallel ports
• Usually for printers
• high capacity for data transmission
(just pretend)
The backside: serial ports
• “9-pin”
• “15-pin”
• often used for the mouse
• low capacity for data transmission
The backside: keyboard port
• “AT keyboard port”
• “PS keyboard port”
The inside: the plot sickens
• Seen outside:
• Power supply
• floppy drive
• CD-ROM drive
• video card
• sound card
• network card
The inside: the plot sickens
• Hard drive
• “CPU”
• “ROM BIOS”
• “RAM”
• “CMOS”
• Clock
Group Projects: More Info• Webpage
• Resources: the entire Internet– www.pcwebopaedia.com– www.zdnet.com
• Web Design programs:– Netscape Navigator’s Composer– AOLPress– HoTMetaL 5.0 (SoftQuad)
For 1/25:• Read ch. 20: How a monitor works
• Each group email me with list of names in group, listing who is “group leader” or “group contact”. (10 of the 200 pts.)
• Look over revised calendar with new arrangement of topics: outside hardware first, then backside hardware, then inside stuff, then software/programming stuff.
