Bill Nye The Science Guy Series | ||||||||||||
 Bill Nye knows how to provide easy access to hard science. What's his secret? A fast-paced approach blending humorous hijinks and hands-on activities with real-life situations, with a focus on illustrating and reinforcing key concepts in a really enjoyable and totally non-boring way! Bill encourages young students to ask interesting questions... then shows them how to discover fascinating answers. | ||||||||||||
| Computers | ||||||||||||
| Bill Nye the Science Guy traces the evolution of these amazing machines, from early models that took up entire rooms to the laptop that fits in your briefcase, and learns that computers are tools with a simple function - to convert information from one form to another. Humans use computers to take information — things like pictures, words, numbers, and sound - and turn it into electricity. The information is changed into a pattern of electrical pulses, a bunch of electricity 'ons' and 'offs.' The computers are designed so that they can tell the difference between pieces of information by the different patterns of 'ons' and 'offs.' Computers change the information you give them, turn it into electrical pulses, make changes to it, and give it back to you in a form you can understand in a matter of thousandths of seconds. It's not the computers, it's the electricity that makes computers so fast. Computers usually store information, and lots of it. In the early days, computers used cards with holes punched in them, but now there are CD-ROMs, hard drives, floppy disks, and tapes. Scientists have made computer parts tiny but very powerful. Thirty years ago, a computer as powerful as the one you use at school or home would have been the size of an entire city! Computers are cool, so 'log on' to the 'Computers' episode and find out more | ||||||||||||
| Running Time: 26 mins | ||||||||||||
| Age Range: 9 - 13 Years | ||||||||||||
| Year of Production: 1998 | ||||||||||||
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