not a handout for lecture purpose. This is not a formal handout. This handout
is for students to refresh their memories about the topics that were covered in
is a computer (processing device which accepts input and produces output)?
of computers? What purpose?
- Why we
use computers in our lives? àComputer process data way
faster than we do. Some calculation may take 200 years for one human being
to do but computer can do it in 15 minutes
is the task of an operating system
operating system we use in our labs
- Why we
emphasize on Windowsàeasy to useàwidely
of other operating systemsàUnix etc.
- Go to
is an Icon, task bar and quick launch button? Figure A-1
shapes of pointer and the operation it does in every shape
up menu. Figure A-4. Run the following command in run option from start
button: c:\any folder name\file name.
drives in a computeràA (Usually a portable), C
in drives can be created and named after any letter by the system admin
of folder. How data can be organized by creating folders. Example: If you
have 5 classes this semester you can create five folders and keep your
homework in each respective folder.
- How to
create a folder
a folder and some subfolders
paint brush and draw a picture
that picture in C drive in the folder you just created