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Crash Course Computer Science
Psychology of Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #38
Season 1
Episode 38
So today, we’re going to discuss some psychological considerations in building computers like how to make them easier for humans to use, the uncanny valley problem when humanoid robots gets more and more humanlike, and strategies to make our devices work better with us by incorporating our emotions and even altering our gaze.
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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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We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements

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Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation.

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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.