From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
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Features common to every computing device
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
Features common to every computing device
- Numbers and math. That's the key to how computing devices work. All computing devices. Once you understand, not just here, but here, that every computing device crunches numbers like calculators on steroids, you'll grasp a fundamental truth. The computing process is the same for every device. We break down the computing process into four stages. Input, processing, output, and storage. Lets use a device you might know well to show examples. Input means you tell the computer to do something. In some way. How do you tell a smartphone to do something for you? How about taking a selfie? So, touch, right? You poke an app icon, to make a specific program load, that enables you to accomplish a specific task. Hey Siri. Voice works with smartphones too, sweet. It's just more input, telling the computer to do something for you. With processing the computer figures out what your input means, and then determines how to respond to your request. I press the camera app on the home screen, and the…
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