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Computer Science Fundamentals

Offered By: New York University (NYU) via edX

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Computer Science Courses Computer Networking Courses Network Security Courses Operating Systems Courses Memory Management Courses

Course Description

Overview

This program introduces learners to the basics of computer programming and computer systems, including hardware, operating systems and computer networking.

No prior knowledge of programming or computer systems is required.

Computer Hardware & Operating Systems outline:

  1. Fundamentals of system hardware
  2. Introduction to OS concepts
  3. OS processes and threads
  4. Thread concurrency and deadlocks
  5. Memory management

Computer Networking outline:

  1. Computer networking overview
  2. Computer networking architecture: application, transport, network and link layers
  3. Network Security overview

Basics of Computing & Programming outline:

  1. Positional number systems
  2. Hello world
  3. Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
  4. Branching statements
  5. Iterative/Loop statements
  6. Strings & Functions
  7. Array-based sequences/Lists


Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Basics of Computing and Programming

This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computing and Programming



Course 2: Introduction to Networking

This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Networking



Course 3: Computer Hardware and Operating Systems

This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computer Hardware and Operating Systems




Courses

  • 5 reviews

    9 weeks, 6-8 hours a week, 6-8 hours a week

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    This course will soon be retired. Last day to enroll is 12/31/2022 at 00:00 UTC.

    This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computing and Programming.

    The course will address the following topics, using the Python programming language:

    • Positional number systems
    • Hello World
    • Numerical data types and arithmetic expressions
    • Branching statements
    • Iterative statements [Loops]
    • Strings
    • Functions
    • Lists [Array-based sequences]
  • 9 reviews

    6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week, 3-5 hours a week

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    This course will soon be retired. Last day to enroll is 12/31/2022 at 00:00 UTC.

    This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computer Hardware and Operating Systems

    This course will cover topics including:

    • Fundamentals of system hardware
    • Introduction to OS concepts
    • OS processes and threads
    • Thread concurrency and deadlocks
    • Memory management
  • 16 reviews

    7 weeks, 3-5 hours a week, 3-5 hours a week

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    This course will soon be retired. Last day to enroll is 12/31/2022 at 00:00 UTC.

    This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Networking

    Course topics include:

    • Overview of computer networking
    • Application layer
    • Transport layer
    • Network layer
    • Link layer
    • Overview of network security

Taught by

Aspen Olmsted, Itay Tal, Rafail Portnoy and Daniel Katz-Braunschweig

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