Crash Course Computer Science

Carrie Anne Philbin hosts this Crash Course Computer Science! In this series, we're going to trace the origins of our modern com...

Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1

Hello, world! Welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! So today, we're going to take a look at computing's origins...

Electronic Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #2

So we ended last episode at the start of the 20th century with special purpose computing devices such as Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines. But as the s...

Boolean Logic & Logic Gates: Crash Course Computer Science #3

Today, Carrie Anne is going to take a look at how those transistors we talked about last episode can be used to perform complex actions. With the just two st...

Representing Numbers and Letters with Binary: Crash Course Computer Science #4

Today, we're going to take a look at how computers use a stream of 1s an...

How Computers Calculate - the ALU: Crash Course Computer Science #5

Registers and RAM: Crash Course Computer Science #6

Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to create memory! Using the basic logic gates we discussed i...

The Central Processing Unit (CPU): Crash Course Computer Science #7

Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to build the ticking heart of every computer - the Central P...

Instructions & Programs: Crash Course Computer Science #8

Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to take our first baby steps from hardware into software! Us...