The Machine · The Foundation
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What is a computer, really?
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The Foundation
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The Foundation
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Choose your theme
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What just happened?
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You didn't need to see it
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Abstractions
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Abstractions are everywhere
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But what if you want to know?
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Here's the thing
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The human way
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
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Layers of work
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Computers are no different
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What is a computer, really?
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A machine that follows instructions
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Transistors
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How many?
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Binary
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Two Bits
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Add another switch
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What about characters?
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The agreement, in action.
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Just bits
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The signature
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Anything
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Before electricity
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Punch cards
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Reading the card
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ENIAC
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The components
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A processor
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Central Processing Unit (CPU)
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Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
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Thousands at Once
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Random Access Memory (RAM)
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Storage
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Opening an app
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An analogy
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All of it, bits
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Reinforce your understanding
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Quiz: transistor
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Question: Abstraction
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Quiz: Binary
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Quiz: answer
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Full circle
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