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Your Task:
Answer the questions below using the following links and this digital sheet:
Video Game History:
Super Mario Bros. hit the market September 13, 1985 and went on to become the top-selling video game in history. Learn more about video game history at the websites below. Then answer the questions on the worksheet.
Web site: MakeKidsCount.com
1. In terms of 'pixels, how do newer video games differ from older games?
2. A computer system designed to run games is called?
3. What makes more money-- Hollywood movies or video games?
4. Name one role (job or Work area) of a video game artist:
5. What is one thing that the video game designer suggests kids do if they want to become video game designers themselves?
Something the think about: What is your favorite video game? How does it differ from the game 'Pong" described on the website above?
How Computers Work:
Web sites: Computers Lessons for Kids and Adults
1. Which of the three parts of a computer receives input?
2. What does a computer hard disk do?
3. What does DOS stand for?
4. What kind of file has a name that ends in .gif?
5. In computer language, what does cd\ mean?
History of Computers:
Click on the links within the question to find the answers:
1. Describe 4 components all computers have in common.
2. What is a dingbat?
3. What was ENIAC?
4. What contributions did Ada Byron make to computing?
5. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips? Be Specific!
6. What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making
computer chips? Why is the special clothing necessary?
7. What does a modem stand for? and what does it do? (search the Webopedia site)
8. What is a bit?
9. How many bits are in a byte?
10. In what year was the first World wide Web software created by Tim
Bereners-Lee?
11. What id Douglas Engelbart invent in relation to computers that we use almost
every day?
12. What does GUI mean? Why did it revolutionize computers?
13. What did Marcian Hoff invent and why is important to computers?
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