How Computers Work: Demystifying Computation
Offered By: Raspberry Pi Foundation via FutureLearn
Course Description
Overview
Understand computation, the basis of every computer system
On this course, you’ll gain an understanding of how computers work at a fundamental level.
You’ll explore system architecture, along with how computers use binary and logic. Once you’ve examined the von Neumann model of computer architecture and the Fetch-Execute cycle, you’ll learn to build a range of simple circuits for maths, and then simulate various logic gates.
Ultimately you’ll complete the course with an understanding of the processes that underpin every modern computer – from supercomputers to smartphones, and everything in between.
This course would suit teachers of KS3 and GCSE Computer Science - plus educators from other countries that teach at an equivalent level.
Syllabus
- What is a computer anyway?
- Introduction
- What is a computer?
- How computers count
- Logic Gates
- Welcome to Week 2
- NAND gates
- All the gates
- Combinational Logic Circuits
- Mathematics with circuits
- Binary mathematics
- Binary multiplication
- Maths with logic gates
- How Computers Work
- Welcome to Week 4
- Von Neumann architecture
- The Little Man Computer
Taught by
Marc Scott
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