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Lesson Topic
Computer Input Devices: Scanners, Mouse, Keyboards/keypads, microphones, and joysticks. History of Computers as mechanical and digital devices: Charles Babbage, Pascaline devices for tax computations etc.
Lesson Outline
Computer Input Devices: Scanners, Mouse, Keyboards/keypads, microphones, and joysticks. Functions of scanners as optical readers of documents and pictures to create
text and image files. Voice to text input through "calibrated microphone" input devices.
Sound and object sensors as computer input control devices. Computer Input Devices: Scanners, Mouse, Keyboards/keypads, microphones, and joysticks.
text and image files. Voice to text input through "calibrated microphone" input devices.
Sound and object sensors as computer input control devices. Computer Input Devices: Scanners, Mouse, Keyboards/keypads, microphones, and joysticks.
Assignment
Complete the handout worksheets on first historic computers.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
During today's session on the history of "computing machines" and original digital computer, PJ was enamored with the topic and quickly realized the large size of these mechanical non-electrical computers as well as their immense size.
Session Hours
0.75
Hours Attended
0.75
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