Lecture Week 1: Bits to UTF-8

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First Course Meetup: Tuesday, Jan. 26

The first course meetup at on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 12:30pm on Zoom. The link has been sent to you via e-mail and available on Compass 2g.

Lecture Handouts

This week beings our journey into Computer Systems:

• Lecture Handout for Week #1: PDF or Google Doc

(I strongly recommend you print out – or use a tablet – to take notes as you go through the videos. They’re designed to cover the same sample problems you’ll see in the lectures.)

Lecture Topics + Videos

1. Course Introduction - MediaSpace Video
2. Foundations of Computer Systems - MediaSpace Video
3. Binary - MediaSpace Video
4. Bit Manipulation - MediaSpace Video
5. Hexadecimal - MediaSpace Video
6. Orders of Magnitude - MediaSpace Video
7. ASCII - MediaSpace Video
8. UTF-8 - MediaSpace Video
9. Weekly Wrap Up - MediaSpace Video

Course Meetup

• Course Meetup for Week #2 (Zoom Recording)

Homeworks

1. Homework 1: Your Dream Computer
2. Homework 2: Binary Bits (PrairieLearn)

Upcoming

• Make sure to join our course slack channel (link in e-mail and Compass 2g).
• Your first MP – MP1: Emojis – is released next week!