The Ultimate beginners course for Computer Science or IT

This lecture is a complete overview of this course. I will be introducing myself and will be giving a brief introduction about what this course is all about.

In this lecture we will be discussing in much more depth about this course like,

· Whom this course is meant for?

· What is the purpose of this course?

· What this course is NOT?

How to use the training effectively. Very important, watch before start of the course.

In this lecture we will be discussing about

• What is a computer?

• What is not a computer?

• Concept of Programmability

• Various components of a computer.

• This part includes a whiteboarding, which shows various parts of a computer and how they complement each other.

• Understanding what is a CPU. We will be seeing how an AMD CPU looks like.

Lecture 3 Quiz

In this lecture we will be discussing about memory and motherboard.

Memory:

· What is meant by the memory of a computer?

· Different types of memory like,

1. Inside the CPU – Registers, Different level of caches.

2. RAM

3. Disk or secondary storage

Motherboard:

· What is a Motherboard?

· Viewing motherboard in Wikipedia and explaining its components.

Lecture 4 Quiz

Here, we will try to understand about

a. Power supply unit

b. Buses (PCI, USB, SATA, Serial)

c. Other devices related to a computer like,

• Monitor

• Graphics Card

• Key board, mouse.

• Network interface adapter (card)

• Audio devices. (Mic, speaker etc.)

• Printer, scanner and list goes…

Lecture 5 Quiz

In this lecture we will see an animated diagram showing all the components we discussed before and how do they fit together to make a computer. We will be also discussing about few more components like:

· North Bridge and south bridge which are types of buses.

· CPU Timer

· AGP/PCIx

Lecture 6 Quiz

In this lecture we will see various parts of computer in real, which later be used to assemble a PC. There will be a brief description of each and every part as we go through them.

Lecture 7 Quiz

Here, we will be assembling a PC from scratch… We will be seeing where to place each component and how to build a computer from the individual parts which we saw before.

This lecture is the continuation of the previous one, where we will be assembling a PC.

In this lecture we will be dealing with BIOS – basic input and output and also about ROM.

Lecture  10 Quiz

In the lecture we will be discussing about Operating System and why a computer needs an OS.

Lecture 11 Quiz

In this lecture, we will be discussing about,

· Boot

· Boot Devices

· The steps to create a boot device.

Lecture 12 Quiz

In this lecture, we will be using whiteboard to demonstrate how do we download an OS and how do we install the same in our PC.

Lecture 13 Quiz

In this lecture we will be downloading OS and burning it into the USB.

· Download ubuntu OS.

· Download Windows OS.

· Burning the OS to USB.

Lecture 14 Quiz

In this lecture we will see,

· Demo of installing Windows OS in the PC.

In this lecture we will see,

· Demo of installing ubuntu OS in the PC.

In this lecture we will be discussing,

· Overview of what have we seen so far.

· About device manager and demo of it.

· Device Drivers

Lecture 17 Quiz

In this lecture we will be dealing with different types of computers like,

· Special purpose

· General purpose

· Virtual / physical

Also, we will be seeing the demonstration of:

· Virtual box and virtual hardware

· Install OS inside Virtual Machine (Virtual Computer)

This is the Question and answer session, where Jo will be asking her doubts related to the topics which we have covered so far.

Lecture 19 Quiz

This lecture is the continuation of the previous Q&A session. Also, there will be a briefing of what we have seen in section 2.

This lecture is an introduction to section 3, which gives an overview of all the concepts which will be discussed in this particular section.

In this lecture we will be discussing about,

· Computing

Basic arithmetic and algorithm using whiteboard

Lecture 22 Quiz

This lecture will be mainly dealing with,

· Two Based Numerals

Ten Based Numerals

Lecture 23 Quiz

In this lecture we will be discussing about,

· Binary Numbers

· What is a bit?

· Binary Numbers to decimal conversion

· Decimal Numbers to binary conversion

Lecture 24 Quiz

In this lecture we will be discussing about

· AND Operation

· Truth table of AND operation

Lecture 25 Quiz

In this lecture we will see more operations of binary numbers like,

· OR

· NOT

· NOR

· NAND

· Right shift

· Left shift

Also, we will be discussing about 2's compliment.

Lecture 26 Quiz

In this lecture we will discuss briefly about,

· Digital Electronics

· Voltage

· Current

· Resistor

Lecture 27 Quiz

In this lecture we will be discussing about,

· Diode

· Building a circuit in Circuit Lab using diode

· Calculating voltages at different points of the circuit

Lecture 28 Quiz

In this lecture we will be learning about transistors and,

· Whiteboarding the voltage pattern of transistor

· Hydraulic analogy of Transistor

· Creating a circuit using transistor in Circuit Lab and measuring voltages at different points

In the lecture we will be viewing diode, transistor and resistor in Wikipedia.

In this lecture we will be ,

· Building a circuit with two resistors in Circuit Lab

· Measuring the voltages at different points

Based on the questions asked by Jo, two resistor in series circuit is explained in bit more depth.

In this lecture we will be learning about logic gates like,

· NOT Gate

· OR Gate

· AND Gate

· Symbols of these logic gates and their truth table

Lecture 33 Quiz

In this lecture we will be discussing about,

· XOR Gate

· NAND Gate

· Symbols of these logic gates and their truth table

Lecture 34 Quiz

In this lecture we will be seeing,

· Circuit of a Half Adder

· How a half adder works?

· Circuit of a Full Adder

· How a full adder works?

· Circuit of N bit full adder

Lecture 35 Quiz

· Seven Segment Display

We will try to understand how does a Seven Segment Display works using an animation

In this lecture we will see,

· Layout of a keyboard

· Build a circuit using seven segment display, keyboard and CPU

· Concept of computer memory

In this lecture we will be discussing about,

· Flipflops

· Truth table of Flipflop

· Integrated Circuit

· Overview of what we have seen so far

Lecture 38 Quiz