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Utah Exploring Computer Science

Computing Ideas

Students learn about what makes a computer a computer as well as the various ways we represent information digitally.

Lessons

2.1 What Makes a Computer a Computer?

  • What Do You Think?
  • What Makes a Computer a Computer?
  • Check Your Understanding: Computer Basics
  • Computer Capabilities and Limitations

2.2 Internal and External Components

  • Internal Components
  • Internal Components
  • Build a Computer
  • Build a Computer
  • Test Your Brain's RAM!
  • +7 more

2.3 Computer Software

  • Operating Systems
  • Operating Systems Quiz
  • Operating System Scavenger Hunt
  • Software Explained
  • Software Reflection

2.4 Computers Speak Binary

  • Introduction
  • Communicating on a Deserted Island
  • Connecting Light Bulbs to Computers
  • Bits and Bytes
  • Write a Message in Binary!

2.5 Bits, Text, and Numbers

  • Encoding Text with Binary
  • Write a Message in Binary - Take Two!
  • Binary Number System Introduction
  • Binary Number System Exploration
  • Binary Exploration Response
  • +2 more

2.6 Encoding Images in Binary

  • See, Think, Wonder
  • Introduction to Pixels
  • Create a Black and White Pixel Image
  • Encoding Pixel Colors: RGB
  • Exploring Bits and RGB
  • +4 more

2.7 Computing Ideas Quiz

  • Computing Ideas Quiz

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