Stored Program Concept HOMEWORK FOR Y10-03-P13: Person Description

TOPIC 3: COMPUTERS
Stored program concept
HOMEWORK FOR Y10-03-P13
Name ____________________________________________ Date __________________
Question 1
Watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3-kVYLNr8
Note: Use pause to help you answer the questions, as they’re in the same order as the
information in the video.
a Complete this table to show how computer scientists sometimes describe the famous
people who have developed computing in the past.
Person Description
Charles Babbage Grandfather of computing
Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
b What is the minimum number of boxes you need to represent the von Neumann
architecture?
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c Draw and label a diagram of the simplest model.
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d Where and when did John von Neumann meet Alan Turing?
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e About what age was John von Neumann when he was offered a professorship at the
Institute of Advanced Studies?
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f Johnny’s love for what kinds of things made him seem to be the opposite of a great
mathematician?
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g Computers did exist early on, but they were single-task-oriented, used different bases
(decimal, binary), and were mechanical and electro-mechanical. The end of the war
brought on the search for a ‘modern’ computer. Von Neumann led a group to build a
computer which can be described as (provide the description):
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Question 2
Draw arrows to connect the components in the left column to their descriptions in the right
column.
Sends out signals to other parts of the

Control unit computer system and fetches, decodes and
executes instructions.
Registers Carries out arithmetic and logic operations.
Individual storage locations that hold an

Arithmetic and logic unit
instruction, data or the address of a memory
(ALU)
location.
Holds the instruction that is currently being

Program counter register
executed by the processor.
Holds the address of the main memory

Instruction register
location storing the next instruction.
Question 3
Here are all the words needed to describe how a computer works.
Arithmetic logic unit Instruction register Instruction Fetch
Control unit Memory (RAM) Address bus Decode

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Program counter
Data Data bus Execute
register
Cycle Registers
Write your own description of how a computer operates. Use each word at least once.
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