Intro to Computer Science

$97.00
About this courseThis is a self-paced educational course. Completing it does not award a professional certification, license, degree or academic credit, and it does not count toward any licensing or continuing-education requirement. Exam-prep courses are independent study material: we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the exam provider, no exam voucher is included, and a certification is only awarded by the provider after you pass its exam. It makes no promise of employment, pay or exam results.

A plain-English foundation in how computers work: binary and data, hardware, operating systems, algorithms, data structures, networks and the basics of programming.

Description

A self-paced introduction to the core ideas of computer science for complete beginners and career changers. Eight lessons take you from bits and bytes through hardware, operating systems, algorithms, data structures, complexity, networking and your first steps in programming, with a practical exercise at the end of every lesson.

  • What Computer Science Actually Is
  • Binary, Bits and How Data Is Represented
  • Hardware: CPU, Memory and Storage
  • Operating Systems and Software Layers
  • Algorithms and Problem Solving
  • Data Structures
  • Efficiency and Big O Notation
  • Networks, the Internet and Your First Program
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