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Crash Course Computer Science
The Personal Computer Revolution: Crash Course Computer Science #25
Season 1
Episode 25
Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Up until the early 1970s components were just too expensive, or underpowered, for making a useful computer for an individual, but this would begin to change with the introduction of the Altair 8800 in 1975. In the years that follow, we'll see the founding of Microsoft and Apple and the creation of the 1977 Trinity: The Apple II, Tand
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The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing.
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Today we’re going to talk about on how we organize the data we use on our devices.
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Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation.
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We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements
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These new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier.
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Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming
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We’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased.
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Today we’re going to take our first baby steps from hardware into software!
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Today we’re going to build the ticking heart of every computer.
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Today we’re going to create memory!
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Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers.
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We’re going to take a look at how computers use a stream of 1s and 0s to represent data.