Meet the Machine
Kinds of computers, smart devices, input, processing, and output, ports and wireless doorways, and how computers shrank from room-sized to pocket-sized.
IT Fundamentals (Expanded Edition): Welcome!
Inside the Computer (Expanded Edition) 🔌
Section titled “Inside the Computer (Expanded Edition) 🔌”You use computers every day: tablets at school, phones at home, game consoles, smart TVs. But what is really going on inside them? In this book you’ll find out. You’ll meet the speedy chef CPU, the memory workbench, and the storage toy box, learn how a computer stores everything as ones and zeros, follow a web page as it is chopped into packets and rebuilt on your screen, lock your accounts with passwords and passkeys, spot scams and fake pop-ups, and solve computer mysteries like a real Fix-It Detective.
What You’ll Learn
Section titled “What You’ll Learn”A Peek Inside the Case
The CPU, the GPU, memory, bits and bytes, storage, the motherboard, and how hardware and software work together.
Computers That Talk
Networks, routers, Wi-Fi, IP addresses, packets, servers, the cloud, and backups.
Keeping Computers Healthy and Safe
Updates, passwords and passkeys, scam messages and fake pop-ups, battery care, and clean-up time.
Be a Fix-It Detective
The five detective steps, the Big Three Fixes, one change at a time, helper reports, and IT careers.
Ready to Start?
Section titled “Ready to Start?”👉 Chapter 1: Meet the Machine 👉 Chapter 2: A Peek Inside the Case 👉 Chapter 3: Computers That Talk 👉 Chapter 4: Keeping Computers Healthy and Safe 👉 Chapter 5: Be a Fix-It Detective