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Computer Science Fundamentals

Over 6 hours of videos spread across 72 individual lessons. You'll learn about Data Structures and Algorithms, Cryptography, Binary, Software Design and Essential Unix Skills. The perfect compliment to The Imposter's Handbook or just fine as a standalone course.

A collection of 35 posts

Logical Negation
Computer Science Fundamentals

Logical Negation

We've covered how to add binary numbers together, but how do you subtract them? For that, you need a system for recognizing a number as negative and a few extra rules. Those rules are one's and two's complement.

· Rob Conery

Bitwise Operators
Computer Science Fundamentals

Bitwise Operators

Up until now we've been representing binary values as strings so we could see what's going on. It's time now to change that and get into some real binary operations.

· Rob Conery

Binary Mathematics
Computer Science Fundamentals

Binary Mathematics

This is a famous interview question: 'write a routine that adds two positive integers and do it without using mathematic operators'. Turns out you can do this using binary!

· Rob Conery

Boolean Algebra
Computer Science Fundamentals

Boolean Algebra

You're George Boole, a self-taught mathematician and somewhat of a genius. You want to know what God's thinking so you decide to take Aristotle's ideas of logic and go 'above and beyond' to include mathematical proofs.

· Rob Conery

The Basics of Logic
Computer Science Fundamentals

The Basics of Logic

Let’s jump right in at the only place we can: the very begining, diving into the perfectly obvious and terribly argumentative 'rules of logic'.

· Rob Conery