Week 1 - History - Information storage before computers

• Representation of text and numbers from history
  • Clay tablets -> Wax -> Papyrous -> Paper -> Printing Press -> Typewriter -> Keyboard -> TouchScreen
• Fonts and font terminology

Week 2 - Bits and Bytes - Representation of text and numbers in computers

• How computer memory and storage work
• Representation of numbers and characters in computer memory
  • Binary, Hexadecimal, Decimal
• ASCII encoding

Week 3 - Viewing Text - Structure of text

• Structure of text file
  • Puctiation, whitespace, line breaks, special characters, escaping
• Markup language
• Structure data as text
  • MarkDown, HTML, JSON

Week 4 - Writing Text - Manipulating text

• Keyboard use
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
• Text editors (Review -> text interpreters/manipulators)

Week 5 - - Text-Based communication with the computer

• Command Line Interface
• SSH universal remote control*

Week 6 - - Comparing and versioning files

• Basic git workflow
• Working with GitHub