Intro to Computer Science

Course

Online

Free

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    Course

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Learn key computer science concepts in this introductory Python course. You'll learn by doing, and will build your own search engine and social network.

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Subjects

  • Network
  • Network Training
  • Solve Problems
  • Manage Data
  • Queries

Course programme

Lesson 1: How to Get Started
  • Interview with Sergey Brin
  • Getting Started with Python
  • Processors
  • Grace Hopper
  • Variables
  • Strings and Numbers
  • Indexing Strings
  • String Theory
Lesson 2: How to Repeat
  • Introducing Procedures
  • Sum Procedure with a Return Statement
  • Equality Comparisons
  • If Statements
  • Or Function
  • Biggest Procedure
  • While Loops
  • Print Numbers
Lesson 2.5: How to Solve Problems
  • What are the Inputs
  • Algorithm Pseudocode
  • Optimizing
Lesson 3: How to Manage Data
  • Nested Lists
  • A List of Strings
  • Aliasing
  • List Operations
  • List Addition and Length
  • How Computers Store Data
  • For Loops
  • Popping Elements
  • Crawl Web
Lesson 4: Responding to Queries
  • Data Structures
  • Lookup
  • Building the Web Index
  • Latency
  • Bandwidth
  • Buckets of Bits
  • Protocols
Lesson 5: How Programs Run
  • Measuring Speed
  • Spin Loop
  • Index Size vs. Time
  • Making Lookup Faster
  • Hash Function
  • Testing Hash Functions
  • Implementing Hash Tables
  • Dictionaries
  • Modifying the Search Engine
Lesson 6: How to Have Infinite Power
  • Infinite Power
  • Counter
  • Recursive Definitions
  • Recursive Procedures
  • Palindromes
  • Recursive v. Iterative
  • Divide and Be Conquered
  • Ranking Web Pages
Lesson 7: Past, Present, and the Future of Computing
  • Past of Computing
  • Computer History Museum
  • First Hard Drive
  • Search Before Computers
  • Present of Computing
  • Slac and Big Data
  • Open Source
  • Future of Computing
  • Text Analysis
  • Energy Aware Computing
  • Computer Security
  • Quantum Computing

Intro to Computer Science

Free