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Discovering computers for Grade1 Opening programs
Learning Objectives
After this lesson, I should be able to:
Open a program by double-clicking on the program's icon
Minimize, Maximize and close a program
1. Opening a program
You open a program to work with it, for example MS Paint.
To open a program on my computer you move the mouse pointer 
source over its icon on the desktop.
You double click (click the left mouse button quickly twice) on the icon. Click here to see more
2. Minimize, Maximize and Close
When a program window opens you will see it appear in front of you
In the top-right corner of the program window, there are 3 important buttons.
The minimize button
The minimize button hides the window
The window is not closed; it is just hiding in the task bar below.
You can open the window again by clicking on the icon in the task bar.
The maximize button 
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The maximize button make the window big as the whole computer screen
When the window is maximized the maximize button changes into another button called Restore
The restore button; 
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You click the restore button to return the window to its original size.
The close button; 
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You click the Close button to close the window.
When you clicked this icon the program is closed and is no longer there.
To open the program again, double click on its icon on the desktop as we have done when we started to open the program Click here to see more.
Hope this assisted
Have a awesome day!!
Replies (6)
Nice one! Keep it up 👍
When i was in grade 1, i haven't know about computers even dnt know what is computer program.I came to know about it when my dad bought the computer for us when i was in class 5.then i came to know what is computer program.Anyways it is a nice post for a computer newbie.
Thank you @ericdavidson
Thank you for the effort in providing this information
pleasure @joe007
I agree @faizrasoolmirza, but it seems that our children is doing alot of thing we leant in higher grades in lower grades these days. I mean when we went to school, we only learnt to write our names, today they need to write their names before they can go to grade1, and know the alphabets.