Host Carrie Anne Philbin

Crash Course Computer Science! In this series, we're going to trace the origins of our modern computers, take a closer look at the ideas that gave us our current hardware and software, discuss how and why our smart devices just keep getting smarter, and even look towards the future! Computers fill a crucial role in the function of our society, and it's our hope that over the course of this series you will gain a better understanding of how far computers have taken us and how far they may carry us into the future. (Crash Course Synopsis)

1. Episode # 1 Early Computing

2. Episode # 2 Electronic Computing

3. Episode # 3 Boolean Logic & Logic Gates

4. Episode # 4 Representing Numbers & Letters with Binary

5. Episode # 5 How Computers Calculate - the ALU

6. Episode # 6 Registers and RAM

7. Episode # 7 The Central Processing Unit (CPU)

8. Episode # 8 Instructions & Programs (CPU)

9. Episode # 9 Advanced CPU Designs

10. Episode # 10 Early Programming

11. Episode # 11 The First Programing Languages

12. Episode # 12 Programming Basics: Statements & Functions

13. Episode # 13 Intro to Algorithms

14. Episode # 14 Data Structures

15. Episode # 15 Alan Turing

16. Episode # 16 Software Engineering

17. Episode # 17 Integrated Circuits

18. Episode # 18 Operating Systems

19. Episode # 19 Memory & Storage

20. Episode # 20 Files & File Systems

21. Episode # 21 Compression

22. Episode # 22 Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces

23. Episode # 23 Screens & 2D Graphics

24. Episode # 24 The Cold War and Consumerism

25. Episode # 25 The Personal Computer Revolution

26. Episode # 26 Graphical User Interfaces

27. Episode # 27 3D Graphics

28. Episode # 28 Computer Networks

29. Episode # 29 The Internet

30. Episode # 30 The World Wide Web

31. Episode #31 Cybersecurity

32. Episode #32 Hackers & Cyber Attacks

33. Episode #33 Cryptography

34. Episode #34 Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

35. Episode #35 Computer Vision

36. Episode # 36 Natural Language Processing

37. Episode # 37 Robots

38. Episode # 38 Psychology of Computing

39. Episode # 39 Educational Technology

40. Episode # 40 The Singularity, Skynet, and the Future

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In-Class and Flipped Classroom Assignment

Video Link Included: Crash Course Computer Science

COMMON CORE CONNECTION - CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7

INTEGRATE and evaluate MULTIPLE SOURCES of information presented in DIVERSE FORMATS and MEDIA (e.g., VISUALLY, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

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