You see it in front of you and it looks like this  . It helps you to make your life easier by overtaking some of your duties. You just have to program (explained later on) it or use a program already developed. For more information see the first lesson on Computers and Their Applications. (This is a link, go on and see what a link is
and return to this then by pressing the PageUp key on the keyboard, all unknown words are explained further
below.)

What is a Keyboard?

You have it just in front of you. Just bend your neck a little bit and look onto the desk in front of you. It looks like this. It has many letters on it and its use is in giving information to the computer by typing words and phrases.

Note: When you arrive at the bottom of the screen, just press the "Page Down" key of your keyboard which is located on the right half of your keyboard, just beside the numbers or press the down-pointing arrow just below the Page Down Key a few times.

What is a Mouse?

Ok, that's a mouse, but it is not the computer-related mouse. The one you will use is this type : and is most probably now in front of you. It has (normally) 2 buttons on it. To double-click (explained later in this section) anything, you use the left button. The use of the right button is a little more complicated.

What is a Click?

A click is when you press onto the left or right button of the mouse by pointing with the mouse pointer, the arrow you see on the screen which moves when you move the mouse, onto an object on the screen (the screen is the TV-like thing you're looking at). Its name comes from the sound this click produces (Just listen). It helps you to activate links (explained later) etc.

What is a Double-Click?

A Double-Click is when you click onto the object 2 times without pausing in between. It helps you to launch programs (also explained later) etc.

What is a Link?

A link is a highlighted piece of text in a web-page (you're looking at a web-page) or a picture or button displaying a small hand when you move the mouse over it, which opens another page in the browser if you click this text. You can try it out by clicking onto the link at the top of this page (it is blue and underlined).

What is a Program?

A program is a type of listing that the computer understands, in order to fulfill some of the wishes of the user . It is made by programmers, which are people giving their lifes up for this little computer in front of you. Now that you can understand the concept, the listing is called the source code, and the thing that runs on the computer to fulfill your wishes, the application, is called the program.

What is Programming?

Programming is to write this listing called program.

What is a Programming Language?

A language that the programmer and the computer both (normally) can understand and communicate through it. The programs are written using this type of languages.

What is a Browser?

You look at a page of text and some images on the screen. This page of text has a special frame around it, with some buttons and other things on it. This is the browser. Without this browser you couldn't look at web pages.

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a huge collection of computers distributed over the whole world , holding many programs and all kinds of information you could think of. Through the help of your browser you can connect to the computers constructing the internet, get information about anything and download (click onto the link, save it and you have it on your PC(=personal computer) and you can use it whenever you need the information or program or whatever it is) them. This could be through the use of a search engine, where you enter your keyword and click on the search figure or button. If you want to try one out click onto this link Excite. Click into the slot which has been prepared for the keywords, you will recognize it, there is just one, and enter your keyword, then press onto the Search button, but wait till it has been loaded. If you are not satisfied with it or have troubles with it, then click onto the back arrow on top of your browser (on the very left) and you will be here again.

If you want to have more information about Computers you should first of all go to the Computers and Their Applications part now. There are also external links for you. None of them is to difficult for you, do not hesitate to try them out.

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