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Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
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Approx. 19 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
7 hours to complete
Abstraction
This week starts your journey into understanding computer science. You will think about how computer science can help you understand the technology you use every day and you will also learn one of the most important concepts in computer science: abstraction.
7 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 20 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes
6 videos
1.1.1 Abstraction4m
1.1.2 Abstraction in data representations4m
1.1.3 Notional machines4m
1.1.5 CPU and memory3m
1.1.7 Summary1m
1 reading
1.0.3 Further Reading10m
1 practice exercise
1.1.4 Abstraction [001]30m
3 hours to complete
State, modularity and applications
This is the second part of the introductory overview of the course. This module will give a high-level overview of the way typical web applications work. It will introduce three key concepts: networks, security and web applications, and will apply them – together with the concepts introduced in the previous week – in order to understand a notional web application.
3 hours to complete
12 videos (Total 54 min), 1 reading, 7 quizzes
12 videos
2.1.3 State5m
2.1.5 An e-commerce site4m
2.1.7 Why does turning it off and on again work?3m
2.2.1 A notional machine: files6m
2.2.3 Modularity2m
2.2.4 Applications5m
2.2.6 Debugging6m
2.2.1 Security threats2m
2.2.3 Encryption10m
2.2.4 Security defences3m
2.3.4 Summary1m
1 reading
2.2.5 Looking inside applications5m
6 practice exercises
2.1.4 State [001]15m
2.2.2 Files15m
2.2.7 Debugging an application problem10m
2.2.6 Security: what have you learned?
2.2.8 Case study: debugging a web load error
2.3.3 Summative quiz [001]20m
2 hours to complete
Data Representation
In this module we will cover three key concepts: data storage, data representation and data compression. You will learn about the ways in which data are represented and stored in a computer, including the use of bit patterns to represent different types of data, the types of hardware used to represent data, and data compression algorithms. You will use this understanding to reason about computer systems and solve problems.
2 hours to complete
10 minutes to complete
Operating Systems
In this topic students will learn about the functioning of operating systems, the various components of operating systems, the relationship between operating systems and applications, and security issues around operating systems. They will use this understanding to reason about computer systems and solve problems.
10 minutes to complete
1 reading
1 reading
3.19 Section 3.5 - SB update10m
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