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                        Categories of Computers
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                                                Learning Outcomes                  Contents                 Animation
                        and Computer Languages
                                      1              provide an                  1  Categories of Computers and Computer Languages   7
                                                                                     Language Translator
                                                                                               Working of Language Translators
                        Learning Outcomes                                            Categories of Computers     Some Other Special Computers     Computer Languages
                                                  overview of the                2  File Management—Organisation of Data   19

                          Categories of Computers
                                                                                     Copying or Moving Files/Folders     Sorting of Files/Folders     Searching for Files or Folders

                          Some other Special Computers
                                                                                     Using Multiple Applications     Different File Formats
                          Computer Languages
                                                 chapter contents.               3  Word Processor—Tabular Representation   31
                          Language Translator
                          Working of Language Translators
                                                                                     Inserting a Table     Entering Data in a Table     Selecting Cells, Rows, Columns and Table
                                                                                     Inserting Rows or Columns     Deleting Rows or Columns     Changing Column Width and Row Height
                                                                                     Merging Cells     Splitting Cells     Moving and Resizing Tables
                                                                                     Applying Borders and Shading     Table Styles     Aligning Text in a Table
                                                                                 4  Word Processor—Mail Merge      42
                      As you know, a computer is an electronic device used in different places for different purposes,
                     such as managing accounts in schools and reading at home. You have also learnt about computer
                     types of computers and computer languages.
                                                                                     Mail Merge     Creating the Main Document     Creating a Data Source
                     programs and programming in the previous class. In this chapter, you will learn about the different
                     i +  CATEGORIES OF COMPUTERS
                                                                                     Merging the Main Document and Data Source     Printing Merged Letters
                     •  Type                                                                 To view the presentation in Slide Show view, click on the Slide Show tab from the ribbon and
                     •  Purpose                                                  5  Presentation—Visual Effects   then click on the From Beginning option to start the slide show from the first slide or From   50
                                                                                             Current Slide option to start the slide show from the current slide.
                     Nowadays, different types of computers are used that can be categorised on the basis of their:
                                                                     Quick Byte      Slide Views     Slide Transition     Animation
                     •  Size, speed, processing power, and cost
                                                                                                         Importing Data from Other Applications
                                                                                     Uses of Media Clips and Action Buttons  Quick Byte
                     Type                                                         Worksheet 1   The shortcut key to start the slide show from the current slide is Shift + F5.  65
                     Let us learn about these categories in detail.
                                                                  provides practical         Transition determines how your presentation moves from one slide to the next. PowerPoint   66
                                                                                  Test Sheet 1
                    three categories, which are as follows:
                                                                                             i +  SLIDE TRANSITION
                    On the basis of their type or functioning, computers can be classified into
                                                                                  Scratch Programming—Game Creation
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                                                                  information or tips        provides several transition effects. To add transition to the slide, follow the given steps:   68
                    •    Analog: It refers to a computer that operates by measuring instead
                                                                                     Starting Scratch
                                                                                                2  Click on the Transitions tab from the ribbon to access the slide transition options.
                                                                                                           Resizing a Sprite
                     of counting. It measures continuously changeable physical quantities
                                                                                               Choosing a Sprite
                     like voltage, pressure, water flow, etc. This type of computer generally
                                                                                     Deleting a Sprite
                                                                                                           Sprite’s Direction
                                                                                               Choosing a Backdrop
                    displays the output in the form of a graph. Examples of analog computers
                                    An Analog Computer
                                                                                                           Working with Two Sprites
                                                                                     Understanding Blocks
                    are analog thermometers, speedometers in cars, old radios, etc.
                                                                                               Use of Forever and Forever-if Blocks
                                                                   to the students.    The Pen Block     Drawing a Polygon     Drawing a Square
                                                                                               Use of Conditional Control Blocks
                                                                                                           Creating Some More Programs
                                                                                     Drawing Patterns
                                                                                 7  HTML—An Introduction   1  Choose a slide on which   86
                                       7                                                      you want to apply the
                                                                                     Introducing HTML     HTML Tags and Attributes     Rules for Writing HTML Codes
                             Categories of Computers and Computer Languages
                                                                                              transition effect.
                                                                                     HTML Document Structure     Basic HTML Tags     Designing a Web Page
                                                                                     Creating and Saving an HTML Document     Editing an Existing HTML Document
                                                                                 8  Online Surfing and Cybersecurity   100
                                                                                     Internet Services     Netiquettes     Cyber Threats     Cybersecurity
                                                                                 9  E-mail—An Introduction        112
                                                                                     E-mail
                                                                           Info Byte           Emoticons and Acronyms   123
                                                                                             The most commonly used slide transitions are shown as icons on the ribbon.
                                                                                              You can also click on the More button to see the complete list of transitions available or scroll
                                                                                 10 More on Internet
                                                                          presents an
                                    #Experiential Learning                                    through the list, one row at a time.
                                                                                              With PowerPoint 2016, you have the ability to see the transition effect on the slide by placing the
                     Let’s Explore  #Communication                                   Google Drive     E-Commerce     Blogging    Podcasting
                        Surf the Internet and try to find the tools required to create a webpage. Discuss with   Worksheet 2   mouse over the transition choice, prior to making your selection.  137
                      your teacher.                                               Test Sheet 2   Info Byte        138
                                                                        interesting fact      Only one slide transition can be applied to a slide. If another transition is applied to the
                                    #Ethical & Moral Reasoning                    Project     slide, PowerPoint replaces the previous transition applied to the slide.  140
                                    #Environmental Awareness
                      Life Skills and Values                                      Explore More (HTML5 and CSS3)   There are several options that you can choose to add to your PowerPoint 2016 slides.  143
                     Create a Webpage on the topic "How to Save Water".  about the topic.     •  Sound and its durations.  146
                                                                                  The AI Corner! (Artificial Intelligence)  •  Whether to apply to this slide only or apply to all slides.
                                    #Environmental Awareness                      OGO Cyber Sample Questions      149
                                    #Experiential Learning                                                       53
                                                                                  IT Buzz Words             Presentation—Visual Effects  152
                      Practical Time
                          Create a simple web page, describing the Solar System and its constituents. Here is an example   (vi)
                     that has a short description of the solar system and it also has a short description of the planet
                     mercury. Surf the internet and find more information to complete the web page.
                                                                   To Sum Up
                                                                                                 To Sum Up provides
                                                                      Data on a computer can be arranged in the form of files or folders.
                                                                      File Explorer helps us organise and manage files and folders.
                                              Life Skills and         When we copy a file or folder, the original file or folder remains at the original location   a summary of the
                                                                    and a duplicate of it is created to a new location.
                                                                        When we move a file or folder from one drive to another, the original file or folder will
                                             Values focus on          Sorting means arranging the files and folders on the computer.
                                                                    be removed from the original location and moved to a new location.
                         Create a similar web page on "Life without Trees."     A wildcard is a special character that is used to represent one or more characters.  chapter for quick
                                                                      We can use multiple applications simultaneously in Windows.
                                            ethical and moral         File extensions help an operating system recognise the different types of files.  recapitulation.
                                                 values.           A.  Tick (✓) the correct option.  Section A (Objective)
                                                                           Exercise
                                                                      1.  What is the file format of the Word file?
                                                                    a. .DOCS      b. .DOCX
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                      iPlus (Ver. 2.0)-VI                                c. .DOCA      d. .DOCE
                                                                      2.  Which character is used to replace only a single character while searching?
                                                                    a. *       b. #
                                                                    c. ?       d. $
                                                                      3.  Which Sort by option arranges files alphabetically?
                                                                    a. Size      b. Type
                                                                    c. Name      d. All of these
                                                                      4.  What helps the operating system recognise different types of files?
                                                                    a. File extension      b. File content
                                                                    c. File name      d. None of these   EXPLORE MORE
                                                                      D.   Develop a script in Scratch to create a game for catching apple.  #Coding & Computational Thinking
                                                                   5.  Which command is used to move data from one drive to another?
                                                                    a. Cut and Paste      b. Copy and Paste   HTML5 and CSS3
                          INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTS                    c. Paste      d. Sort
                                                                                                HTML5 is the latest version of HTML which was released in the year 2014 by W3C (World Wide
                                                                   28                           Web Consortium). It allows better management of website contents. Previous versions of HTML
                                  #Problem Solving & Logical Reasoning                          are HTML 1.0, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0. Some new features and elements
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                                                                                                in HTML5 are as follows:
                       Hey guys, what are you arguing about?
                                                                                                •   It is supported by browsers like Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc.
                                                                                                •   It allows add audio and video on the web page by using <audio> and <video> tags.
                         We were coming in the car, and our grandfather drove                   •   It can handle inaccurate syntax and other errors.
                         us  here. He doesn’t know the route,  so  we used the                  •   It allows you to draw shapes like circle, rectangle, triangle, etc.
                         google assistant to know about the route.       Hints for script:      •   It has new elements like nav, header, footer, time, article, canvas, source, track, etc.
                       We could directly control the assistant using voice and did not have   Special section on Artificial   CSS
                                                                                                Sometimes we have to style our web documents using different fonts, colours, spacing, etc. This is
                       to type down manually, I say that AI is being used here somewhere,       where the role of CSS comes into the picture. CSS describes how HTML elements are displayed. CSS
                                               Intelligence (AI) is given to                    released in the year 1996. The latest version is CSS  3. CSS helps in creating dramatic websites and
                       but Karan disagrees.                                                     stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It controls the presentation of the HTML documents. It was first
                       Ria is correct. AI is being used by the assistant                        controlling the web without changing HTML. It enables the separation of formatting content of web
                       here.  AI is  a being used in many real-life                             pages to a separate stylesheet resulting in simpler HTML. Few advantages of CSS are as follows:
                                                    enhance AI skills.                          •     Maintenance: As there are one or more stylesheets, it is easy to control the content of the
                       applications these days. We will be looking                              •   Saves time: We can apply the same CSS code to multiple HTML pages.
                       at some interesting applications of AI today.
                                                                                                 entire set of web pages.
                                                                                                •     Faster web page loading: Instead of executing formatting on entire set of web pages in HTML
                                                                                                 document, stylesheet presents all the editing in one place leading to faster page loading.
                    Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer or a machine to think, learn and act like   •     Customisation: It is easy to customise and alter a web page by simply changing the stylesheets.
                    human brain.                                                                •  •   Consistency: It provides a consistent and precise positioning of navigable elements.
                                                                                                   Appealing: It makes the site more appealing by adding videos and graphics easily. It also
                                                                     Explore More contains      Using CSS with HTML
                                                                                                 permits viewing online videos without using third party plug-ins.
                                                                                                Before using CSS, you should have some working knowledge of HTML, text editor, files and
                                                                        Open Notepad and write the basic structure of an HTML document.  #Coding & Computational Thinking
                                                                      supplement topics for     Internet browsing. CSS is helpful for both students as well as professionals for creating attractive
                                                                       E.
                                                                                                websites and personal blogs. There are three main methods to apply CSS styles with HTML:
                                                                         •    Write an essay using the paragraph tag on the topic ‘Women Empowerment’. Use the heading
                                                                                                   Inline CSS: In this method, CSS code written in an HTML file. Inline CSS reduce the number of
                                                                                                •
                                                                         tag and centre it.
                                                                                                 files the browser downloads before displaying a web page. So, it increases the downloading
                                                                         •    Using the <style> tag, make the following changes to the font: Use Times New Roman and set
                                                                       add-on knowledge.         <p style= “color: red”> Environmental Hazards! </p>
                                                                                                 speed. To add inline CSS in the HTML document, write the CSS code within the HTML tags.
                                                                         the size to 4, and the colour of the font should be purple.
                                                                                                 For example,
                                                                          •  Change the background colour of the web page.
                                                                          •  Use the text-indent and margin property to align the paragraphs of the essay.
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