Crash Course Computer Science #8: Instructions & Programs

This SERIES FINALE of Crash Course Computer Science takes a look towards the future! In the past 70 years, electronic computing has changed how we live our lives, and it is just getting started. From ubiquitous computing, artificial...

This video focuses on the early efforts of computing. Welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! Today, we're going to take a look at computing's origins, because even though our digital computers are relatively new, the need for...

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...

This video [11:31] focuses on computer screens and 2D graphics to begin a discussion of computer graphics. We ended the last episode with the proliferation of command line (or text) interfaces, which sometimes used screens, but typically...

This video [11:23] focuses on computer keyboards and command line interfaces. We are going to start our discussion on user experience. We've talked a lot in this series about how computers move data around within the computer, but not so...

This video focuses on the first computer programming languages. We ended last episode with programming at the hardware level, but what was really needed was a way to program computers - software! So by 1952 Navy officer Grace Hopper had...

This episode talks about how computer science can support learning with educational technology. We here at Crash Course are big fans of interactive in-class learning and hands-on experiences, but we also believe in the additive power of...

So, we've talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven't talked about is storage. Data written to storage, like your hard drive, is a little different, because it will still be there even if the power...

This video focuses on advanced CPU designs. So now that we've built and programmed our very own CPU, we're going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased from just a few cycles per second to gigahertz! These...

So we've talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven't talked about is storage. Data written to storage, like your hard drive, is a little different, because it will still be there even if the power goes...