Most modern-day individuals have access to the Internet in some form. Academics learn about the creation of the World Wide Web from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The thought-provoking resource shares Berners-Lee's thoughts on how he...

Join the resistance and learn computer code while you're at it. Continuing from the previous installment, the hero of the series looks for a resistance leader using a set of conditional statements. Scholars learn how to include if,...

Break free from monotonous lessons. An engaging video introduces the computer coding series and describes the ongoing context. Robots have taken over, and the hero needs to escape from prison and save the world by solving a set of clues....

IBM has a computer that is 1 mm by 1 mm and as fast as a computer from 1990. With time, computers get faster, smaller, and cheaper. A video lesson examines the history of computer production and what that means for biotechnology advances.

Can you work out how robots work? An engaging video describes the field of robotics and how it is different from artificial intelligence. The narrator explains how sensors, actuators, effectors, and computers work together in a robot to...

Computers have changed the world but how have computers themselves changed? A Crash Course History of Science episode focuses on the the history of the computer. It opens with defining what a computer is and continues by introducing the...

Combine multiple inputs to get one output. An engaging video discusses neural networks and how they work on a basic level, that of taking several inputs and determining a single output. Using examples, the narrator defines different...

The first space travel relied on Newton's laws of motion rather than computer functions. While the trip was successful, computer innovations change the capabilities of space travel. A video presentation from the SciShow Space series...

In what direction is our wired world going? Scholars prepare to interact with the technology of the future using a video from a series that focuses on media literacy. The narrator proposes viewers keep a skeptical mind as they interact...

Can you remember how a computer works? An engaging video describes the role of the input, memory, central processing unit (CPU), and output in a computer. It also explains how these functions work together. Now it's just a matter of...

Hardware and software go hand in hand. The last installment of a five-part series explains the relationship between computer hardware and software. It turns out that the computer's operating system provides the link between the two.

Four-letter words aren't necessary a bad thing. The fifth video of an eight-part series about how the Internet works focuses on HTTP and HTML. It describes how computers call up websites from servers using Get and Post requests.

Finally, logic gates make some sense. Individuals learn how computers make computations using circuits and logic gates. The third video in a five-part series explains some explains of how different types of logic gates perform different...

There are two types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not. Pupils watch a video that describes how computers store information using binary code. They learn how programmers can encode text, images, and...

You see computers all the time, but do you really know how a computer works? The first installment of a five-part playlist explains the essential functions of a computer. The video describes, in detail, each of the functions: input,...

Mac or PC? An informative video in the Crash Course Computer Science series describes the history of the personal computer, beginning with the Altair 8800. It compares the business models of Apple (closed architecture) and IBM (open...

Navigate your way through a smorgasbord of computer acronyms. Pupils see the relationship between LAN and WAN and examine how computers send information. They also learn about Internet protocol (IP), user datagram protocol (UDP),...

Graphics can make or break a video or computer game. A thorough installment of the Crash Course Computer Science series describes different types of graphics projections, including orthographic projections and perspective projections. It...

The world of computing has come a long way since ENIAC. The 24th installment of a Crash Course Computer Science series focuses on how historical events have propelled advances in computing. From the Cold War to the Space Race to mass...

Imagine a computer without keyboards. A video in the Crash Course Computer Science playlist explains the development of input and output devices for computers, including keyboards. Additionally, the resource describes command line...

If you've always wondered what JPEG means, now's your chance to figure it out. Scholars learn about file compression techniques, including the difference between lossless and lossy compression. The video explains run-length encoding and...

Can you multitask? Computers sure can. Young computer scientists learn about operating systems that connect software to hardware, such as device drivers. They also see how computers multitask and use dynamic memory allocation. 

Wait, the World Wide Web and the Internet aren't the same thing? Young computer scientists learn how the World Wide Web is like a program that runs on the Internet system. The 30th Crash Course Computer Science video also explains...

Communication is key, especially with computers. Individuals watch a video to learn about global communications systems, beginning with LAN. It also describes the Ethernet, MAC addresses, IP Addresses, packet switching, network switches,...