You have heard about bits and binary. You may have heard it in news or movies. It is interesting to learn about how computers think, read and write data. You should take this course if you want to understand the concept of basic computer language. This course improves your computer fundamentals understanding and computer basics.
This course is for anyone interested in basics of computer systems. It shows you how computer systems work. The fundamental is the same from digital watch to super computers. It also helps you with your daily interaction with computer system, like network speed, color codes, and so on.
In this course, we discuss computer basics, namely bits, binary and the foundation of computer language. We discuss how the binary system works. You will learn how to convert binary numbers to decimal, and decimal numbers to binary representation. We show you some resources that enables you to convert text to binary that helps you to understand the binary system concept. We also go through everyday examples of the binary system that you use on a daily basis.
ASCII is another topic that this course covers. You will see what it is and what happens when you interact with computers. We go through the ASCII table and explain the concept behind the table. We also show you and example of converting a character to its binary form. This familiarizes you with computers operation.
Another topic is teraflop that is regularly mentioned in the media. You will see what this means and you will learn about its development in the world.
Finally, hexadecimal is another useful topic covered in this course. It is handy in various application. You will learn it in this course as well.
There is a lot to learn, so, take this course and start learning.
Course consist of total 40min of content, in total.
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