[Blackpool] Free Computer Science Course

[Michael Rimicans]

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As the subject line says: Free Computer Science course fromt Stanford
University.

http://www.cs101-class.org/

cost: FREE

details:

Syllabus

CS101 topics are covered with a mixture of video lecture and active
lab work, all in the browser:

The nature of computers and code, what they can and cannot do
How computer hardware works: chips, cpu, memory, disk
Necessary jargon: bits, bytes, megabytes, gigabytes
How software works: what is a program, what is "running"
How digital images work
Computer code: loops and logic
Big ideas: abstraction, logic, bugs
How structured data works
How the internet works: ip address, routing, ethernet, wi-fi
Computer security: viruses, trojans, and passwords, oh my!
Analog vs. digital
Digital media, images, sounds, video, compression

Cheers,

Heeed
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