CRASH COURSE COMPUTER SCIENCE*

*I would name it CRASH COURSE COMPUTER ENGINEERING instead

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Host Carrie Anna Philbin explains many concepts related to Computer Engineering Technology.  Her and the PBS Digital Studios team do an amazing job summarizing and demonstrating some exciting (and some less than exciting) concepts while also entertaining all of us.  The entire Crash Course is available for free on YouTube!

 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIctyqH29Q&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo

 

 

WORKSHEETS


Episode #0 – Preview

 

Episode #1 – Early Computing

 

Episode #2 – Electronic Computing

 

Episode #3 – Boolean Logic & Logic Gate

 

Episode #4 – Representing Numbers and Letters with Binary

Episode #5 – How Computers Calculate – the ALU

 

Episode #6 – Registers and RAM

 

Episode #7 – The Central Processing Unit (CPU)

 

Episode #8 – Instructions & Programs

 

Episode #9 – Advanced CPU Designs

Episode #10 – Early Programming

 

Episode #11 – The First Programming Languages

Episode #12 – Programming Basics: Statements & Functions

Episode #13 – Intro to Algorithms

Episode #14 – Data Structures

 

Episode #15 – Alan Turing

 

Episode #16 – Software Engineering

 

Episode #17 – Integrated Circuits & Moore’s Law

 

Episode #18 – Operating Systems

 

Episode #19 – Memory & Storage

 

Episode #20 – Files & File Systems

 

Episode #21 – Compression

Episode #22 – Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces

Episode #23 – Screens & 2D Graphics

 

Episode #24 – The Cold War & Consumerism

 

Episode #25 – The Personal Computer Revolution

 

Episode #26 – Graphical User Interfaces

Episode #27 – 3D Graphics

 

Episode #28 – Computer Networks

 

Episode #29 – The Internet

 

Episode #30 – The World Wide Web

Episode #31 – Cybersecurity

 

Episode #32 – Hackers & Cyber Attacks

 

Episode #33 – Cryptography

 

Episode #34 – Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

 

Episode #35 – Computer Vision

 

Episode #36 – Natural Language Processing

Episode #37 – Robots

Episode #38 – Psychology of Computing

 

Episode #39 – Educational Technology

 

Episode #40 – The Singularity, Skynet, and the Future of Computing