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Ended · 2017

Crash Course Computer Science

Starting February 22nd, Carrie Anne Philbin will be hosting Crash Course Computer Science ! In this series, we're going to trace the origins of our modern computers, take a closer look at the ideas that gave us our current hardware and software, discuss how and why our smart devices just keep getting smarter, and even look towards the future! Computers fill a crucial role in the function of our society, and it's our hope that over the course of this series you will gain a better understanding of how far computers have taken us and how far they may carry us into the future.

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Seasons & episodes

Season 1 · 40 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · Early Computing
  2. S01 E02 · Electronic Computing
  3. S01 E03 · Boolean Logic & Logic Gates
  4. S01 E04 · Binary - Representing Numbers and Letters
  5. S01 E05 · How Computers Calculate - the ALU
  6. S01 E06 · Registers and RAM
  7. S01 E07 · The Central Processing Unit (CPU)
  8. S01 E08 · Instructions & Programs
  9. S01 E09 · Advanced CPU Designs
  10. S01 E10 · Early Programming
  11. S01 E11 · Programming Languages
  12. S01 E12 · Programming Basics: Statements & Functions
  13. S01 E13 · Intro to Algorithms
  14. S01 E14 · Data Structures
  15. S01 E15 · Alan Turing
  16. S01 E16 · Software Engineering
  17. S01 E17 · Integrated Circuits & Moore's Law
  18. S01 E18 · Operating Systems
  19. S01 E19 · Memory & Storage
  20. S01 E20 · Files & File Systems
  21. S01 E21 · Compression
  22. S01 E22 · Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces
  23. S01 E23 · Screens & 2D Graphics:
  24. S01 E24 · The Cold War and Consumerism
  25. S01 E25 · The Personal Computer Revolution
  26. S01 E26 · Graphical User Interfaces
  27. S01 E27 · 3D Graphics
  28. S01 E28 · Computer Networks
  29. S01 E29 · The Internet
  30. S01 E30 · The World Wide Web
  31. S01 E31 · Cybersecurity
  32. S01 E32 · Hackers & Cyber Attacks
  33. S01 E33 · Cryptography
  34. S01 E34 · Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
  35. S01 E35 · Computer Vision
  36. S01 E36 · Natural Language Processing
  37. S01 E37 · Robots
  38. S01 E38 · Psychology of Computing
  39. S01 E39 · Educational Technology
  40. S01 E40 · The Singularity, Skynet, and the Future of Computing

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