FGF ICT CLASS: 8 Chapter-1: When A Letter Reaches the Computer 1. What is Technology? ➔Scientific Knowledge used in practical ways is known as Technology 2. What is Information Technology? ➔The study or use of electronic equipment especially computer for storing, analysing and sending out information. 3. What is ICT ? ➔Information and Communication Technology that provides access to information through telecommunication. 4. Which device is used commonly to input text in a computer? ➔Keyboard 5. Name the keyboard used in a computer? ➔QWERTY 6. Write the text input methods to a computer. ➔a) Keyboard Method of typing letters by using fingers in a keyboard b) Speech to text Method of converting voice command to text. c) Optical Character Recognition (ICR) Methods of copying texts in a printed paper using scanner d) Hand writing Method of writing with fingers using Handwriting input software (As in mobile phone, touch computer etc) 7. What is K-Touch? ➔K-Touch is an application software used to learn and practice typing 8. How can we open K-Touch in a computer? ➔Application – Education - K-Touch 9. What is special about the letter keys ‘F’ and ‘J’ in a keyboard? ➔While typing, the left point finger has to be placed on the letter key ‘F’ and right point finger on the letter key ‘J’. The remaining other fingers have to be placed by next in the same order IT WING, IUHSS PARAPPUR FIRST BELL-1
Let’s be familiar with these persons 1. Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. 2. Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which is the kernel for GNU/Linux operating systems and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He is one of the developers of Linux Free Software. 3. Vinton Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet". He received National Medal of Technology in 1997, ACM Alan M.Turing Award in 2004 ( It is known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science) and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 4. Tim Berners Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English engineer and computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW). He received Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, Finland Millennium Prize in 2004 and AM Turing Award in 2016. IT WING, IUHSS PARAPPUR FIRST BELL-1