It's cute if you're a computer geek!

Scooter: Here I am and there you stand, such distance in between,
'Cause I am a human and you are a machine.
How can I communicate exactly what I mean,
When I am a human and you are a machine?
(speaking)Parlez-vous francais?
Habla espanol?

Mr. Chips: I am a computer with so much in store,
If you could learn my language or I could speak in yours,
Then I'd do more work for you than you could ever dream.
Though you are a human and I am a machine.

Scooter:(speaking) OK., I'll give it a try.

Mr. Chips: (speaking)First I hope you'll clear you mind and listen closely, Scooter,
(Teddog: You dumb nut)
Forget the words you thought you knew and start to think computer.
Computers change the letters and numerals humans type
To a number code made up of things that we call bits and bytes.

Scooter:(speaking) Bits and bytes?

Mr. Chips: (speaking)Think computer Scooter.
(singing)A byte is several digits all standing in a row,
They help present a letter or a number that you know.
For instance when you type an "A"
This byte is what I see,
and 00110011 is my way of saying "3"
(speaking)This bit is one little bit of a byte.

Scooter(speaking): I get it -- bits and bytes are sort of a computer's alphabet.

Mr. Chips(speaking): That's right, but ABC and 123's isn't talking.
Hey let's face it
That's why one language that we use is called computer BASIC.

Scooter: (speaking)Computer BASIC?

Mr Chips: (speaking)"Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
(singing) BASIC is a language that most computers know,
And once you start to speak it, communications flow.
You use words and phrases -- I use bits and bytes instead, and BASIC lets us understand
what the other one just said. BASIC is a language that I can talk in human and you can
talk in machine and we can understand each other.

Mr Chips: (speaking)Yes, BASIC is the language you'll be using to feed in my data.
It's also the language all my programs or software are written in.

Scooter: (speaking)Data, programs, software?

Mr Chips: Data is information.
Data means the facts.
It's everything you store in me
For solving problems back.
A program means directions
That tell me what to do,
How to analyze my data
And find answers just for you.
And software is just another name for
all the instructions of programs
that you feed me.

Scooter: Here I am and there you stand, we're closer than we seem.
Though I am a human and you are a machine.
I'll get a book on BASIC and as quickly as I can
I will talk computer, and you will understand.
(speaking)We didn't do to badly, did we Mr. Chips?

Mr. Chips: (speaking)It was pretty amazing, Scooter.

No one likes the computer Schoolhouse Rock songs. Yes, they're really outdated and Scooter needs to be smacked across the back of the head, but they're still cute. Katie can't stand them, another reason to love them.