Check in for Understanding

The BIOS is most like the computer’s

• brain

• eyes and hands

• stomach

• lungs

The CPU can handle ________ of instructions a second

• thousands

• millions

• billions

• hundreds

Programs are encoded and stored in memory as

• 1's and 0's

• raw text

• html

• python

The CPU’s job is

• to store information

• to deal with input and output from peripherals

• to edit files in memory

• to fetch and execute instructions

The critical components of your computer’s architecture are:

• Wires, Plastic, Silicon

• Programs, Bits, Bytes, HTML

• Peripherals, BIOS, CPU, Programs, Memory

• Mouse, Motherboard, Integrated Circuits, Wires

Why are programs saved in a different format than the human readable programming languages that they are written in?

What are some of the programs that your computer is running even when you’re not touching it?

What are some of the things your computer needs to know in order to respond properly to a mouse click?