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Welcome to Computer Science 101

CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today.

Lectures

Lecture 1 View Now > 18 min

Topics: Administrative Details, Exams - Time limit, Conflicts, Course Grade Breakdown, Assignment Details - Submission, Grading, Late Days, Course Email, Newsgroup, Facebook/Twitter, Mailing List, Course Prerequisites, Languages and Paradigms Taught - C++ vs.

Lecture 2 View Now > 51 min

Topics: C/C++ Data Types - Interpretations, Sizes, Bits- How Bytes are Broken Up into Bits, Breaking Up a Character's Decimal Value into its Underlying Bit Structure, Shorts - Interpreting Data that Consists of More Than One Byte, Representations of Negative Numbers, The Sign Bit, Two's Complement Addition