Year 10 handed me 28 nearly identical AI essays on how a CPU works. Here's what I do now
Evening all. Marking on a Sunday again, so you get a post. Last term I set Year 10 (14 and 15 year olds) a short homework: explain the fetch-decode-execute cycle in your own words, 300 words, with an example. I got 28 essays back from a class of 31. At least 22 described the CPU as "the brain of the computer, orchestrating" something or other, and four mentioned a register that isn't on our spec at all. Two ended…
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