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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Inside Your Computer
How does a computer work? The critical components of a computer are the peripherals (including the mouse), the input/output subsystem (which controls what and how much information comes in and out), and the central processing unit (the...
Other
Pc Guide: System Memory
This article from the PC Guide describes various aspects of the system memory, including how the system memory works, the different technologies used, packaging styles, and how operating systems and programs organize and use the memory...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Supercomputer Gordon
Located at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Gordon is a completely new kind of supercomputer that uses massive amounts of flash memory to retrieve randomly organized data.
Computer Hope
Computer Hope: Information About the Computer Bus
A complete guide to the computer bus, including descriptions of different types of busses, troubleshooting,and bus specifications.
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
Learners 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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Font and File Size
What is your favorite font? In this experiment, you will test how the font style of the letters (or characters) in a file might change the size of the file.
Popular Science
Popular Science: In 2021 You Will Enjoy Total Recall
A futuristic article about a technology that will track your life's journeys and memories is found at this Popular Science website.
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
Simply Psychology: Information Processing
Explains what is meant by information processing in the brain and the influence of computers on the thinking of cognitive psychologists. Describes the role of attentional capacity in humans' ability to process information and how models...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality
Learners learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of...
Other
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
This site, provided by Mark Nottingham, defines the term "Cache," describes the different types of caches, and how caches work. Tips for using caches correctly in a site are also provided.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Giant Magnetoresistance: The Really Big Idea Behind a Very Tiny Tool
This itsy-bitsy phenomenon makes your iPod and hard drive tick.
Other
Karbos Guide: The Pc and Its Motherboard
An easy-to-understand site that details the basic components of the PC hardware system. Charts and pictures included with links to other modules.
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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: James T. Russell
This site provides a biography of James T. Russell, inventor of the compact disk, and the basic ideas behind the technology.
Other
Pc Mechanic: A Cpu History
An informative article that presents the history of the CPU. (March 23, 2001)