Week 1

First Glances

  • Power of Data
    • Machine Learning Techniques
    • Datafication and the Past
  • Computers Under the Hood
    • Bit Exercise
    • Storage: RAM, Files, Plain Text, ASCII/Unicode
    • From Bits to Compilers to Python
  • What Programming Can Do
    • For History
    • For You
  • The Syllabus
  • Next Week’s Assignment
  • Diving In
    • Command (Shell)
    • Python
  • A History of Computation