Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Computer Architecture
A series of 38 video lectures on computer architecture by Prof. Anshul Kumar. With comments section at bottom of the page.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Computer Control
This site describes and illustrates the most common hardware components found in a computer.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Core Memory
Brief description of Core Memory, a reliable high-speed storage device developed during the 1950s. The various memory artifacts are on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the development of the...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Williams Tube Memory
Brief description of Williams Tube Memory, the first randam-access memory used by many first generation computers. The various memory artifacts are on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Delay Line Memory
Brief description of Delay Line Memory, a slower serial based design. This site provides a glimpse into the development of the information age from their large collection warehoused in the Computer History Museum located in Mountain...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Computer Components
Check your understanding of the flow inside the computer, from the input to the CPU and memory and back to the output, in this set of practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are the Parts of a Computer?
Each computer receives input from a variety of devices, processes that data with the CPU and memory, and sends results to some form of output. This diagram visualizes that flow.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Memory and Single Linked Lists
Have your students look at what memory is, in particular how a linked list can be used to represent a list of numbers. Explore linked lists in a game setting.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: I Cs, Microprocessors, & Memory
Brief description of ICs, Microprocessors, and Memory, describing the breakthroughs in technology design that dramatically reduced the size, power requirements, and cost of a computer. The various Integrated Circuit artifacts are on...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Computer Concepts
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies basic computer tools and explains their use to the students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Secondary Memory
Types of long term storage of data on the computer and retrieval are examined.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Magnetic Disks
A brief history covering magnetic disks, developed as efficient random access memory device. Additionally, a discussion on how a disk drive works is provided. The artifacts are on display at the Computer History Museum. This site...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to 'Memory'
An introduction to creating a single player version of the memory game using drawing commands and implementing the rules of the game using variables and logic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Memory Game: Scoring and Winning
Continuing with the creation of the Memory Game is an illustration of the scoring component.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Memory Game: Drawing a Grid of Tiles
Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Memory Game: Flipping Tiles
Continuing with the creation of the Memory Game is creating the tiles to flip--click-flipping tiles, restricting tile flips, delay-flipping tiles, and checking matches.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Magnetic Tapes
A brief history covering Magnetic Tapes, initially used in the 1950s to replace punched cards, and used primarily today as a backup device. The artifact is on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design
Students work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
BBC
Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Data Storage
Learn about your computer's data storage, which includes understanding what ROM and RAM are. You may quiz yourself on page nine by taking the Test Bite.
Other
Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
Other
Try Nano: Applications: Applications of Nanotechnology
Article discusses promising applications of nanotechnology to computing and processing technologies and to the consumer goods, materials and manufacturing, energy, and transportation industries.
Other
Pc Mechanic: A Cpu History
An informative article that presents the history of the CPU. (March 23, 2001)