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Explore how computer systems store, manipulate, and convert various data types like text, images, and videos through integrated software and hardware. Gain insights into accessible data representation.

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Computer systems do not understand human instructions, nor can they perceive real-life data in its raw form. Therefore, computer systems require a way to store and represent information in an accessible way. They use software and hardware components combined to help retrieve information, store it, manipulate it, and convert it back to a human-accessible format. If you want to learn how computer systems perform complex tasks such as storing and manipulating textual data, videos, music, images of your cat, and much more, this course is meant for you.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Get introduced to the basics of computer systems.

Learn about the different hardware and software components of a computer.

Get hands-on experience in data representation in Python.

Learn about the different techniques of data compression.

Get introduced to the basics of computer systems.

Content

37 Lessons13 Quizzes25 Challenges

Computer basics

6 Lessons

Learn how computers process data, binary systems, logic gates, and number representations.

What is a Computer?

A Brief History of Computations

Binary Digits and Bytes

Digital Logic Gates

Binary to Hexadecimal Conversion

Number and Letter Representation

Hardware and Software Components of a Computer

6 Lessons

Unpack the core of computer hardware and software components, architecture, and data processing.

Hardware Components of a Computer

Input and Output Devices

Storage Unit

Memory

Central Processing Unit

Software Components of a Computer

Data Representation in Python

8 Lessons

Examine Python data representation, NumPy arrays, character encoding, and file handling techniques.

Overview of Python

Coding Challenge Solutions #1

Representing Data with NumPy

Coding Challenge Solutions #2

Character and Text Representation

Character and Text Representation Solution

File Representation

File Systems

Image, Audio, and Video Representation in Python

12 Lessons

Enhance your skills in digital image, audio, and video representation using Python.

Color Representation

Image Representation

Hexadecimal Color Codes

Bitwise Image Processing Exercise 1

Bitwise Image Processing Exercise 2

Bitwise Image Processing Exercise 3

Image Preprocessing Exercise 1

Image Preprocessing Exercise 2

Data Compression

5 Lessons

Dig into data compression, efficiency via redundancy reduction, and lossy/lossless techniques.

Certificate of Completion

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