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Computer Science Basics
M1What is a computer?Free
  • The anatomy of a computer
  • The CPU: the brain
  • Memory vs storage
  • Hardware vs software
M2How data is representedLocked
  • Why everything is ones and zeros
  • Counting in binary
  • Bits, bytes, and big numbers
  • Encoding text, numbers & more
M3How programs runLocked
  • What is a program?
  • Compiled vs interpreted
  • What an operating system does
  • From your click to running code
M4Thinking like a computerLocked
  • What is an algorithm?
  • Many ways to solve one problem
  • An intuition for efficiency (Big-O)
  • Data vs information
M5Inside the machineLocked
  • Fetch, decode, execute
  • The memory hierarchy
  • Logic gates
M6Big ideas in CSLocked
  • Abstraction: hiding complexity
  • Sorting & searching (intuition)
  • What computers can't do
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What is a computer? · Lesson 3 of 22

Memory vs storage

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