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Capital University of Science & Technology Islamabad
Department of Computer Science,

Faculty of Computing
Lab Manual for Introduction to Computing

Lab 1(Part I): Introduction to Computer Hardware and Application Software
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Department of Computer Science CUST, 2017
Lab 1 (Part I): Introduction to Computer Hardware and Application Software
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Activity Time boxing 3
3. Objective of the experiment 3
4. Concept Map 4
4.1 What is Computer 4
4.2 Computer hardware 4
4.3 Application Software 4
5. Homework before Lab 4

5.1 Lecture review 4
5.2 Practices from home 5
6. Procedure & Tools 5

6.1 Tools 5
6.2 Login/Logout 5
6.2.1 Changing password 7
6.2.2 Using MAJU Network 7
6.3 Walk through Task 8
6.3.1 Computer Hardware demonstration 8
6.3.2 External Hardware demonstration: 9
6.3.3 Internal Hardware demonstration: 10
6.3.4 Backside Components of CPU: 11
6.3.5 Thin Client PC setup in lab: 11
6.3.6 Finding information on the internet using web browsers 12
6.3.7 Printing website page using university printer 23
6.3.8Z drives 27
7. Practice Tasks 28
8. Evaluation criteria 29
9. Further Reading 29
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Lab 1: Introduction to Computer Hardware and Application Software
Lab 1: Introduction to Computer Hardware and Application

Software
1. Introduction
A Computer is an electronic device that has ability to store, retrieve and process data. As discussed
in class lecture we use a Personal Computer (PC) to
• Play games
• Browse Internet
• Store Information
• Doing complex calculations
• Entertainment (watching movies and listening songs)
• Communicate with friends and family
Computer hardware consists of the physical components that make up a computer. These
components include the computer's processor, memory, monitor, keyboard, mouse, disk drive,
and printer (You will be shown different kinds of hardware shortly).
Application Software is a Program that tells/instructs a computer what to do. e.g. Microsoft Office
suite, Web browser, any computer game etc.
Relevant Lecture Reading:

a) Revise Lecture No. 1
b) Text Book: Computer Science an Overview
2. Activity Time boxing
Task No Activity Name Activity time Total Time

6.2 Login/Logout 30 min 30 min
6.3 Walk Through ~5-7 min each 110 min
Tasks
7 Practice Tasks ~4-5min each 40 min
Table 1: Activity Time Boxing
3. Objective of the experiment

• To introduce computer hardware components
• To differentiate between external and internal hardware components
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• To differentiate between input and output devices

• To Turn on and shutting down the computer
• To login and log out of network
• To change the password
• To acquire the working knowledge of mouse and keyboard to use Windows operating
system
• To find information on the internet using web browsers To use Google search engine
smartly
4. Concept Map
4.1 What is Computer

A Computer is an electronic device that has ability to store, retrieve and process data. As discussed
in class lecture we use a Personal Computer (PC) to:
• Play games
• Browse Internet
• Store Information
• Doing complex calculations
• Entertainment (watching movies and listening songs)
• Communicate with friends and family
4.2 Computer hardware

Computer hardware consists of the physical components that make up a computer. These
components include the computer's processor, memory, monitor, keyboard, mouse, disk drive,
and printer (You will be shown different kinds of hardware shortly).
4.3 Application Software

Application Software is a program that tells/instructs a computer what to do. e.g. Microsoft Office
suite, Web browser, any computer game etc.
5. Home work before Lab

Prior to this lab you are required to review the class lecture and complete the practice task from
home as questions will be asked about them.
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5.1 Lecture review

It is assumed that you have the understanding of the following topics:
Basic understanding of Operating system (OS)
Different kinds of operating systems
Why we use different operating systems?
What are the different types of application software?
What is World Wide Web (www)?
What are a search engine and their purpose?
5.2 Practices from home
You are required to complete the following instructions before attending this lab:
• Identify different components of your computer at home such as monitor, CPU,
keyboard, mouse etc.
• If you have a desktop computer then try to open it and visually identify its
internal components as discussed in lecture.
• Note down your Computer specifications e.g. size of Hard Disk and Main
Memory, Processor speed etc.
• Using web browser such as, Internet explorer, Firefox or chrome. Go to Google
website (www.google.com) and search information about Mohammad Ali
Jinnah University.
6. Procedure & Tools
6.1 Tools
Basic Computer Hardware components
Desktop Computer
Microsoft Windows operating system
Web browser e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome
6.2 Login/Logout [Expected time= 30 min]

Before you begin working on your terminal, you must realize that you are working on a Local Area
Network. All the computers that you see around you are interconnected. Before you begin, you
need to turn on your computer and log on to the network.
• Press Ctrl + Alt + Del as indicated in the figure

• You would have to enter your username (i.e., your roll number) and password
(given by the lab people) for this purpose. For example if your roll number is
xxxx, you should enter 1xxxxx as your username.
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Figure 1:Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Login
Figure2: Login Help
Enter your Registration

Number given on your
university ID card Enter your Password
MAJUISB is your University

Domain
Figure: 3 Login Username and Password
Before you proceed, try and log on to the system as explained above. Ask for help if you are unable
to do it or you do not have your password as yet.
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Do not go beyond this point if you are not logged in properly. Once you are logged in, you will
see the normal windows environment on your computer. If you think there is a problem, ask for
help NOW.
6.2.1 Changing password

It’s a good practice to periodically change your password. If you are using the password given to
you by the lab manager change your password now.
For this purpose, you will have to press the “CTRL + ALT + DEL” key combination and the
option to change the password appears. Now follow the instructions on the screen to
change your password.
a b
Figure 4: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Select Change Password. (b). Enter New Password
6.2.2 Using MAJU Network

You can utilize MAJU network for several services such as accessing the lecture slides and ecopy
of the materials that your instructor would like to share with you.
• Click on start menu. Open Run. A command box shown in the figure will appear
Figure 5: Start Menu and Select Run and Open \\dataserver\jinnah$\

• Type\\dataserver\jinnah$\ in the edit box and press enter
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Figure 6: Data Server Jinnah
1) A window will appear showing folders of different instructors at Mohammad Ali Jinnah
University. You will have to look for the instructor of your course and double click it.
2) After double clicking the folder of your instructor you will be able to see the different
lectures and assignment of that course.
6.3 Walk through Task

This section is designed such a way that you can complete the following tasks independently
6.3.1 Computer Hardware demonstration

Physical demonstration of Hardware will be given by Lab Instructor.
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6.3.2 External Hardware demonstration: [Expected time= 5 min]
Figure 7: Typical Desktop Computer
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6.3.3 Internal Hardware demonstration: [Expected time= 10 min]
Figure 8: Internal Hardware Components
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6.3.4 Backside Components of CPU: [Expected time= 10 min]
Figure 9: Motherboard Ports
6.3.5 Thin Client PC setup in lab:
Figure 10: Thin Client HSTNC-004-TC
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Figure 11: Monitor HP LE 1851w
6.3.6 Finding information on the internet using web browsers

[Expected time= 30 min]
Searching on World Wide Web for information on any particular topic becomes very easy with
few helpful tips and tricks that optimize your search query by returning more relevant results. In
this task few of these tips are described with an example. All the instructions are given step by
step with screen shots to help you throughout the task. In case of being unable to understand
any step you may ask lab instructor for guidance.
Using Web Browser
Open your web browser by following these instructions:

1. Click on start menu. open programs and select any of the browsers as Internet
Explorer , Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
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Figure 12: Select Web Browser
2. Home page of the selected browser will open. For example homepage of Mozilla
Firefox will be as follows
You can type any term in this boc

Type address of website here to search on Google
e.g. www.jinnah.edu.pk
Figure 13: Web Browser Mozilla Firefox
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Search Engine
Search engines can be used to search desired information on the internet.
• They work like catalogs
• Fast & easy way to access sites, books, journals, & other queried information.
• Search engines results are based upon:
• Amount of information on site
• No. of linking sites
• No. of people who choose a link
Example for Search Engines includes Google (www.google.com), yahoo (www.yahoo.com), etc.
we will use Google as search Engine in this lab task. For better understanding you can use same
tips in other search engines and compare results.
How to perform search in Google?
1. Type Google web link in the address bar of web browser and press Enter.(Figure 14)
Figure 14: Address Bar
2. Type search-query in the text field provided in Google welcome page and click Search
You can use these options to

select the type of result that you
would like to have e.g. Images,
videos etc.
Click on Google search Type Query here
Figure 15: Google Start Page
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Effective web Searching Tips and Tricks
Exact words and Phrases

Most widely used trick for searching exact words and phrase is quotation marks (“”) for example
perform the following search.
Steps:
1. Type “Muhammad Ali Jinnah” in text box with quotes and click search or press Enter.
(Figure 16). In the results you will see pages relevant to this query.
2. If you observer the results text in bold shows exact match of the search query you entered.
(Figure 17)
Search Query
Figure 16: Search Query: "Muhammad Ali Jinnah"
Matching query results will always be In

BOLD
Figure 17: Exact Phrase Search Results
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3. If you would like to search only for the images for “Muhammad Ali Jinnah” you can click
on the images option on the top of the screen. If you would like to search only news article
then click on “News” and if you would like to search for books related to “Muhammad Ali
Jinnah” then clock on “Books”. (Figure 18)
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Click on News for

Click on Images for Click on Books for
news search
image search book search
Figure 18: Google Horizontal Menus
Figure 19: Exact Word Search Result

4. Same search can be performed on finding exact word for example search “University” by
typing in search text box and click search or press enter. (Figure 19)
Site Search
The site: operator allows you to perform a search in a specific site. For Example let’s say we want
to search all the available information about Pakistan Election 2013 at Dawn website
(www.dawn.com)
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1. Type Site:Dawn.com Pakistan Election 2013 in search box and click search (Figure 20).
Figure 20: Searching Pakistan Election 2013 Information at Dawn Website
You can also search in a particular domain (i.e. .com, .edu, .pk, .org, .gov) for example let’s say
we want to search same information as previous but this time we want to retrieve all results from
websites that have domain (.pk)
2. Type site: .pk Pakistan Election 2013 and click search.
Notice website links with

.pk domain
Figure 21: Searching site by using domain
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The Wildcard
The asterisk (*) is a wildcard that can match any word. For example, if you wanted to see what
products Google has, you could use this search.
1. Type Google* in Search box and press enter.
Search results will

return all products of
Google like:
Maps
Earth
Analytics
Videos
Chrome etc.
Figure 22: Using Wild Card
Wild card can also be used to fill in the blank. For Example, let’s say you are not sure what comes
before “is” in “All that ______ is not gold”, you could search Google to fill in the blank.
1. Type All that * is not Gold and press enter.
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Google has returned results

with possible words like
“glitters” and “glisters”
Figure 23: Using Wild Card to Fill the Blanks

Time Ranges
This less known feature searches for a range of numbers or time ranges. For example, if you want
to find the best books from year 2002 to 2013, you could search as follows: Step:
1. Type best books 2002..2013 and press enter. (Note the two periods(..) between the two
numbers).(Figure 24)
If you observe the results

you will see Google has
returned results of not only
specified years 2002 and
2013 but a complete time
range.
Figure 24: Using Time Range
File Type
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The filetype operator lets you search for files of a specific file type. For example, you could search
for only PDF files or DOC files etc. Step:
1. Type “filetype:pdf computers for beginners” without quotes and press enter. (Figure 25)
All the matching

results returned are
in PDF file format
Figure 25: Using filetype: pdf
One Word or the Other

The “OR” operator lets you find words that contain one term or another. For example, using the
following search will pull up results that contain either the word “Laptop” OR “Desktop”. The
word “OR” must be in uppercase. Steps:
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1. Type “Laptop OR Desktop” and press Enter.
Figure 26: Laptop or Desktop Search Results

Word Definitions
You don’t have to Google a word and look for a dictionary link if you want to see its definition.
Use the following search trick and you’ll see an inline definition. Steps:
1. Type “define: Computer” and hit Enter.
Figure 27: Define Computer Search Results
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Calculator
This is one the many interesting tricks of Google i.e. it can work like a calculator. Using simple
Arithmetic operators like +, -, *, / and ^ etc. it can calculate results. For Example, if you are asked
to find Product of any given two numbers, you can type the entire expression in search box and
find the calculated answer in return.
1. Type “2 * 2” in search box and press enter.
Figure 28: Google Calculator 2 * 2
Figure 29: Converting 5 Feet into Centimeter
Unit Conversions
The calculator can also convert between units. Just type “X *units+ in *units+”. Here’s an
example:
1. Type “5 feet in centimeters” and press enter.
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Notice the arrows. Click

on them to find more unit
conversions options
Figure 30: Other Conversions
Figure 31: Other Conversion
6.3.7 Printing website page using university printer [Expected time= 15 min]
The first step for printing a document using printer is to connect with a printer and then give a
print command for printing.
Connecting to printer
1. Click on start button and click on Run option or press +R key as show in figures below
figure 32.
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Figure 32 Start Menu Run and Run Shortcut K ey
2. The Run window is appeared as shown below. Write \\bookshop in this window and press
OK button.
Figure33: Bookshop
3. After pressing OK, a window will appear after it containing two printer icons. First printer
is for black and white printing named “BLACK3”and other is for color printing named
“COLOUR” as shown in Figure 34
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Figure 34: Available Printers
4. If you want to add black printer, right click on BLACK3 icon and click on connect option
(Figure 35).
Figure 35: Connecting Printer
5. After connecting, open the BLACK3 printer by right click. A list of documents to be print
are shown in the opened window (Figure 36). After sending print, you can see your
document in this window.
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Figure 36:Black3 Printed Document List

Print Document
Find print option
Open web browser and search “computer science is fun” in Google. Suppose you want to take a
print of the results. Click File option on top left corner of web browser and select print option as
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shown below.
Figure 37: Printing Search Results
Print window and printer selection

Selecting print option a new window will appear (Figure 38). You can also open this window by
shortcut key Ctrl + P. Select BLACK3 printer form the list as shown below and press ok to send a
print command. Take your printouts from the printer.
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Figure 38: Selecting Printer
6.3.8 Z drives [Expected time= 5 min]

Z drives are network drives provided by university for each individual student having fixed size of
total 150 MB. You can save your data in these drives and can access it from anywhere within the
campus.
To access your Z drive open my computer and double click on Z drive under network drive as
shown in figure below. The name of Z drive will start from your username i.e. your registration
number.
Figure 39: Student Z Drive
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7. Practice Tasks
This section will provide more practice exercises which you need to finish during the lab. You
need to finish the tasks in the required time.
7.1 Practice Task 1 [Expected time= 5 min]

Search only PNG images of following (exclude jpg, jpeg and gif)
a) Mickey Mouse
b) Tom and Jerry
c) Pink Panther
d) My Little Pony
e) Pooh

Search the information about Pakistan in following websites
a) http://www.Dawn.com
b) http://www.thenews.com.pk
c) http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Search Pakistan stock exchange for the profit and loss statement from year 2000 to 2012

Search e-books on “Introduction to Computing” in PDF format.

7.5 Practice Task 5
Use Google Calculator to calculate following expression and write there answer in front
a) ((2*55)+41)/12= _______
b) ((19*19*19)/20*1)+5^2=________
c) 0/10+10=________

Use wild Card operator to fill appropriate word in following sentences and write answer in the
blank.
a) ________ makes waste
b) ____________ is a Curse
c) _____________________ was president of Pakistan in year 2000
d) All is ___________ that ends _____________

Analyze the difference in following Search Queries
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Science, MAJU, 2013
a) Top Best Seller nonfiction books in year 2010 OR 2006

b) Top Best Seller nonfiction books in year 2010 AND 2006

Convert following currency in Pakistani Rupees
a) 10 US Dollars = _______________________
b) 10 UK Dollars = _______________________
c) 10 Saudi Riyal = _______________________
d) 10 Euro = _______________________
e) 10 pounds = _______________________
8. Evaluation criteria
The evaluation criteria for this lab will be based on the completion of the following tasks. Each
task is assigned the marks percentage which will be evaluated by the instructor in the lab whether
the student has finished the complete/partial task(s).
Table 2: Evaluation of the Lab

Sr. No. Task No Description Marks
1 5.2 Home Task 20
2 6.3.1-6.3.8 Walk through tasks 10
3 7.1-7.8 Practice Tasks 30

9. Further Reading
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en
www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10...internet-searching/2439

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Capital University of Science & Technology Islamabad

Department of Computer Science,

Lab Manual for Introduction to Computing

2. Activity Time boxing 3

3. Objective of the experiment 3

5. Homework before Lab 4

6. Procedure & Tools 5

Lab 1: Introduction to Computer Hardware and Application

Relevant Lecture Reading:

2. Activity Time boxing

Task No Activity Name Activity time Total Time

3. Objective of the experiment

• To differentiate between input and output devices

4.1 What is Computer

4.2 Computer hardware

4.3 Application Software

5. Home work before Lab

5.1 Lecture review

6. Procedure & Tools

6.2 Login/Logout [Expected time= 30 min]

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Del as indicated in the figure

Figure 1:Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Login

Figure2: Login Help

Enter your Registration

MAJUISB is your University

Figure: 3 Login Username and Password

6.2.1 Changing password

6.2.2 Using MAJU Network

Figure 5: Start Menu and Select Run and Open \\dataserver\jinnah$\

Figure 6: Data Server Jinnah

6.3 Walk through Task

6.3.1 Computer Hardware demonstration

6.3.2 External Hardware demonstration: [Expected time= 5 min]

Figure 7: Typical Desktop Computer

6.3.3 Internal Hardware demonstration: [Expected time= 10 min]

Figure 8: Internal Hardware Components

6.3.4 Backside Components of CPU: [Expected time= 10 min]

Figure 9: Motherboard Ports

6.3.5 Thin Client PC setup in lab:

Figure 10: Thin Client HSTNC-004-TC

Figure 11: Monitor HP LE 1851w

6.3.6 Finding information on the internet using web browsers

Using Web Browser

Open your web browser by following these instructions:

Explorer , Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Figure 12: Select Web Browser

You can type any term in this boc

Figure 13: Web Browser Mozilla Firefox

How to perform search in Google?

Figure 14: Address Bar

You can use these options to

Click on Google search Type Query here

Figure 15: Google Start Page

Effective web Searching Tips and Tricks

Exact words and Phrases

Figure 16: Search Query: "Muhammad Ali Jinnah"

Matching query results will always be In

Figure 17: Exact Phrase Search Results

Click on News for

Figure 18: Google Horizontal Menus

Figure 19: Exact Word Search Result

Figure 20: Searching Pakistan Election 2013 Information at Dawn Website

2. Type site: .pk Pakistan Election 2013 and click search.