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Instructions & Programs: Crash Course Computer Science #8
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Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we’re going to take our first baby steps from hardware into software! Using that CPU we built last episode we’re going to run some instructions and walk you through how a program operates on the machine level. We'll show you how different programs can be used to perform different tasks, and how software can unlock
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Today we start a three episode arc on the rise of a global telecommunications network.
12:23
Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and rendered for a 2D screen.
12:38
Today, we're going to discuss the critical role of graphical user interfaces.
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Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing.
10:57
This is an era that saw huge government funded projects - like the race to the moon.
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Today we begin our discussion of computer graphics.
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Today, we are going to start our discussion on user experience.
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Today, we’re going to talk about lossless compression.
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Today we’re going to look at how our computers read and interpret computer files.
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Today we’re going to trace the history of these storage technologies.
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Computers keep getting faster and faster...
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So you may have heard of Moore's Law...