Understanding Computer Hardware
The Illustrated Guide to Understanding Computer Hardware, Components, Peripherals & Networks
Updated on Apr, 2024
Language - English
Computer Hardware,Computer Science
Lectures -25
Duration -33 mins
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Course Description
Exploring Computer Hardware looks at:
- The microcomputer: PCs, laptops and tablets.
- Hardware components
- CPU architecture, instructions sets, and the fetch execute cycle
- Computer ports and plugs
- Network topologies, LANs, WANs, MANs, fibre optics and ethernet
- WiFi and Cellular networks
- The internet: email, the cloud, the world-wide web
- IP Addressing, web servers, DNS servers and DHCP servers
- TCP/IP model, OSI model, ports, sockets
- Logic gates, binary arithmetic, two's complement, floating point, hexadecimal, and base conversions
- Data Storage: bits, bytes, kilo bytes, kibi bytes, megabytes...
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
You'll obtain a basic understanding of:
- The microcomputer, mainframes and super computers
- Hardware components
- CPU architecture, instructions sets, and the fetch execute cycle
- Computer ports and plugs
- Network topologies, LANs, WANs, MANs, fibre optics and ethernet
- WiFi and Cellular networks
- The internet: email, the cloud, the world-wide web
- IP Addressing, web servers, DNS servers and DHCP servers
- TCP/IP model, OSI model, ports, sockets
- Logic gates, binary arithmetic, two's complement, floating point, hexadecimal, and base conversions
- Data Storage: bits, bytes, kilo bytes, kibi bytes, megabytes...
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
We recommend you get yourself a copy of the course textbook "Exploring Computer Hardware". Link here.
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
1 Lectures
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Introduction to Understanding Computer Hardware
00:45
00:45
The Computer
3 Lectures
Hardware Components
11 Lectures
Peripherals
3 Lectures
Computer Networks
7 Lectures
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