{"id":16,"date":"2024-03-29T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:31:26","slug":"what-is-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/what-is-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>computer<\/strong>\u00a0is an electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to\u00a0<strong>store<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>retrieve<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>process<\/strong>\u00a0data. You may already know that you can use a computer to\u00a0<strong>type documents<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>send email<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>play games<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>browse the Web<\/strong>. You can also use it to edit or create\u00a0<strong>spreadsheets<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>presentations<\/strong>, and even<strong>\u00a0videos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hardware vs software<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we talk about different types of computers, let&#8217;s talk about two things all computers have in common:&nbsp;<strong>hardware<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>software<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Hardware<\/strong>&nbsp;is any part of your computer that has a&nbsp;<strong>physical structure<\/strong>, such as the keyboard or mouse. It also includes all of the computer&#8217;s internal parts, which you can see in the image below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0computer\u00a0is an electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to\u00a0store,\u00a0retrieve, and\u00a0process\u00a0data. You may already know that you can use a computer to\u00a0type documents,\u00a0send email,\u00a0play games, and\u00a0browse the Web. You can also use it to edit or create\u00a0spreadsheets,\u00a0presentations, and even\u00a0videos. Hardware vs software Before we talk about different types of computers, let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/basic.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}