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L01 [Syllabus and Big Ideas]

Big Idea #1

All Computer can compute the same kinds of things

• Turing equivalence

Big Idea #2

Layers Making the Electrons Work

Big Idea #3

Binary

• Binary is better for computers because circuits are just on/off

Big Idea #4

Computers Store Representations of Something Outside

• Computers can't store the mathematical abstraction we call a number
  • Numbers exist in your head, computers are only physical objects
• Everything in a computer is a finite-sized representation