The CPU is the brain of a computer, containing all the circuitry needed to process input, store data, and output results. The CPU is constantly following instructions of computer programs …

There's a central processing unit, or CPU, where all the calculations are done. And finally, there are output devices that take information and convert it into physical output.

Computer components How does the computer receive, store, and process data? Explore how input and output devices, CPU, and computer memory work.

Since the CPU is constantly using data from memory, they're connected via a memory bus, a high speed communication transfer system, typically made from wires, conductors, or optical fibers.

Computers use bits (binary digits) to represent data as ones and zeroes. Bits are the smallest piece of information a computer can store. Explore how computers use the binary number …

Computers do process all data as bits, but they prefer to process bits in byte-sized groupings. Or to put it another way: a byte is how much a computer likes to "bite" at once.

In this unit, we'll dive deeper into the workings of computers, starting with understanding how computers represent data as 1s and 0s, then finding out how they process 1s and 0s with logic …

The light being on or off is stored data, it represents information that might not make sense to anyone else but to you makes sense because you decided beforehand what to do. This is …

Luckily for us, we don't have to input data into our computers through binary as that would be extremely tedious and error prone. Computers only understand machine code also known as …

A computer's processor takes information for memory, it manipulates it or changes it using algorithm, which is just a series of commands, and then it sends the process information back …