Explore how computer systems store, manipulate, and convert various data types like text, images, and videos through integrated software and hardware. Gain insights into accessible data representation.

Computer systems do not understand human instructions, nor can they perceive real-life data in its raw form. Therefore, computer systems require a way to store and represent information in an accessible way. They use software and hardware components combined to help retrieve information, store it, manipulate it, and convert it back to a human-accessible format. If you want to learn how computer systems perform complex tasks such as storing and manipulating textual data, videos, music, images of your cat, and much more, this course is meant for you.

Information Representation in Computer Systems

A computer can only process streams of ones and zeros because these streams are the computer's language or the machine language. Like data, instructions also have to be stored as ones and zeros for the computer to decode and execute. However, it is not convenient for humans to remember all the binary instructions. Moreover, writing binary instructions would require the utmost diligence since changing even one bit can crash the whole program.

In this lesson you will learn how software is used to control the hardware components of a computer system.

Computer basics

Hardware and Software Components of a Computer

Data Representation in Python

Image, Audio, and Video Representation in Python

Data Compression

Software Components of a Computer

Machine language