Crash Course Computer Science #20: Files & File Systems

This video focuses on computer files and file systems. Today we're going to look at how our computers read and interpret computer files. We'll talk about how some popular file formats like txt, wave, and bitmap are encoded and decoded giving us pretty pictures and lifelike recordings from just strings of 1's and 0's, and we'll discuss how our computers are able to keep all this data organized and readily accessible to users. We're starting to talk more about computer users, not programmers. [12:02]