Computer Science Videos for the Uninitiated

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Contents Lesson 1: Why YOU Should Learn Computer Programming [1.1] Should Everybody Learn to Code? [1.2] What Most Schools Don't Teach Lesson 2: The Creative Mindset That Programmers and Hackers Share [2.1] How the Best Hackers Learn Their Craft Lesson 3: Data, Binary, Hexadecimal, and Basic Bitwise Operations (Prerequisite) [3.1] Bits, Bytes and Hex [3.2] Bitwise Operators [3.3] Bitwise Operators 4: The Logical Shift Operation Lesson 4: An "Automagic" Symphony of Unseen Computation [4.1] Booting an Operating System [4.2] What are EXE files made of? [4.3] How do computers read code?

The following videos are provided here for educational purposes only. They were carefully chosen to represent an incremental introduction to the fundamentals of computer science. This should help to smooth out the learning curve that you will face as you start to learn your first programming language. Hills are easier to climb than mountains.

The videos are referenced here in an IEEE style that is modified to include some extra information. This helps to keep the video information clean, concise, and available, even if some videos are deleted or made private. These references have been grouped into lessons, so the videos should all be watched in the order listed here.