[Blackpool] Free Computer Science Course

Michael Rimicans heed at bigmassiveheed.co.uk
Sat Feb 18 18:23:46 UTC 2012


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Sorry, forgot to mention this could be a good LUG project to do all
together :D


On 18/02/12 18:21, Michael Rimicans wrote:
> 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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