comp1238.md

Week 1

• Concept of writing is very old
• Done from clay to paper to typing
• Different counting systems exist, like base 60

Week 2

• 1 and 0s are bits
• Unsigned numbers are from 0 to 255, signed is -128 to 127
• Bindary files are not meant to be read as text

Week 3

• Markdown languages are called that because people used to put "marks" (like asking for changes) on people servers
• UTF-32 is wasteful, UTF-8 is basic ACII, makes it the most popular encoding in the internet
• Rendering engines: Blink for chromium, Webkit for safari

Week 4

• Standard keyboard in 104 keys
• Can be arranged in various ways, like QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK
• Word processors are the complicated one, text editors not os much

Week 5

• Command lines come from teletype (paper) machiesn
• CLI are described as efficient
• scp = "Securely copy files between computers."