Course Features
Duration
6 weeks
Delivery Method
Online
Available on
Limited Access
Accessibility
Mobile, Desktop, Laptop
Language
English
Subtitles
English
Level
Beginner
Effort
6 hours per week
Teaching Type
Self Paced
Course Description
Course Overview
International Faculty
Post Course Interactions
Instructor-Moderated Discussions
Skills You Will Gain
Prerequisites/Requirements
Zero computer experience is assumed beyond a basic ability to use a web browser.
What You Will Learn
Analog vs. digital
Big ideas: abstraction, logic, bugs
Computer code: loops and logic
Computer security: viruses, trojans, and passwords
Digital media, images, sounds, video, compression
How computer hardware works: chips, cpu, memory, disk
How digital images work
How software works: what is a program, what is "running"
How structured data works
How the internet works: ip address, routing, ethernet, wi-fi
Necessary jargon: bits, bytes, megabytes, gigabytes
The nature of computers and code, what they can and cannot do
Course Instructors