Free Computer Science Courses from Stanford

If you are interested in Computer Science, these FREE courses from Stanford make learning easy and accessible for everyone:

1. Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1. In this course you are going to learn about:

* "Big-oh" notation

* Sorting and searching

* Divide and conquer (master method, integer and matrix multiplication, closest pair)

* Randomized algorithms (QuickSort, contraction algorithm for min cuts)

* Data structures (heaps, balanced search trees, hash tables, bloom filters)

* Graph primitives (applications of BFS and DFS, connectivity, shortest paths)

2. Databases: Relational Databases and SQL. In this course you are going to learn about:

* Relational Databases and SQL

* Advanced Topics in SQL (prerequisite: Relational Databases and SQL)

* OLAP and Recursion

* Modeling and Theory

* Semistructured Data

3. Computer Science 101. In this course you are going to learn about:

* The nature of computers and code, what they can and cannot do

* How computer hardware works: chips, cpu, memory, disk

* Necessary jargon: bits, bytes, megabytes, gigabytes

* How software works: what is a program, what is "running"

* How digital images work

* Computer code: loops and logic

* Big ideas: abstraction, logic, bugs

* How structured data works

* How the internet works: ip address, routing, ethernet, wi-fi

* Computer security: viruses, trojans, and passwords, oh my!

* Analog vs. digital

* Digital media, images, sounds, video, compression

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