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Computer Scienceintermediate

How Computers Think

From a recipe written in painful detail to a circuit that genuinely adds. The mechanical foundations of computation, no coding required.

3 lessons46 min totalup to 177 XP

Lessons

  1. 1Algorithms as Recipesnext upAn algorithm is a recipe with no room for judgement. Discover how much detail 'obvious' actually hides.easy14 min+55 XP
  2. 2Searching SmarterHalve the problem instead of walking it. Twenty questions is enough to find one person in a million.medium15 min+60 XP
  3. 3From Logic Gates to AddingWire four gates together and you have built arithmetic. This is the actual bottom of the stack.hard15 min+62 XP