Learn how digital information is stored, transmitted, and encoded by computers. This course covers the first part of the AP Computer Science Principles exam.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know beforehand
- Contact
- History of innovation
- Impact of coding and programming
- Yes and no answers with binary
- Binary and bits
- Communicating with bits
- Digital communication
- Abstraction of numbers
- Binary numbers
- Bit size and values
- Overflow
- ASCII and Unicode
- Encoding formatted text
- File sizes and bytes
- Text compression
- Encoding images
- Image compression and file formats
- Summary
Taught by
Doug Winnie
