School:Computer Science

Computer science or computing science (CS) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation. It includes practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. Computer scientists invent algorithmic processes that create, describe, and transform information and formulate suitable abstractions to design and model complex systems.

Students can complete 'core courses' in computer science from this department. There is no diploma or official recognition - this is simply an opportunity to follow a similar learning path to a traditional college Computer Science program.

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This school is a member of the Computer Science Portal and Science Portal.

Major divisions may include higher level generalized topics such as...

• Topic: Computer Programming
• Topic: Computer Architecture
• Topic: Computer Network Administration

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Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Good open source software sources for computer science education are welcome. Add them here!

On-line:

• Open Source Computer Science Degree Collection of free resources from third-level institutions, including many listed below, assembled to be equivalent to an undergraduate Computer Science degree.
• CS50 Introduction to Computer Science Offered by Harvard College; One of the best introductory courses that is offered as OpenCourseWare; Video lectures; Assignments; Virtual Machines that have open source software required for doing the course; Automated testing of code written by students.
• Online Courses at MIT, complete with etextbooks
• Complete and On-line Creative Commons course in Computer Science It was designed to be equivalent to the MIT Undergraduate Course in Computer Science but condensed into 12 months. Many of the Lecturers featured in the video are MIT lecturers who wanted to offer free education.
• Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR)

• Free online courses offered by Stanford University beginning January 2012:
  • Software Engineering for Software as a Service (no longer available)
  • Machine Learning
  • Cryptography
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms I

• NPTEL Free online courses(video lectures, presentation, and notes) by IITs and IISc, India.
• CS10 The Beauty and Joy of Computing Offered by UC Berkeley EECS department; An introductory computer programming course that is offered using the visual programming approach; Video lectures; Reading materials from across the web; Access to their learning management system is not freely available to take tests but most of the content is available publicly.
• Codecademy Teaches HTML, Javascript, Python, Ruby, jQuery, and PHP in an interactive manner, awarding badges for completing units, increasing your streak, and exercises completed.
• SoloLearn Another resource for learning how to code HTML, Javascript, Python, and more for free. Share your coding projects with ours, and interact with the SoloLearn community to see what is being built by other brilliant coders. Available iOS and Android smartphone applications are available for download for free.
• Khan Academy Computer Science Teaches basic coding skills using Javascript.
• Codility Lessons Intermediate-advanced programming lessons from Iterations to Dynamic Programming in the form of a PDF reading material and a few logic problems to go with each lesson. Available in 16 different programming languages.
• Ask Computer Science sub-Reddit

Core Courses

Full Course Listing

• Introduction to Programming – A good resource for beginners.
• Topic:Computer networks
• Topic:Artificial intelligence

• This is to inform all those who may be interested in participating at any level that I have created a proposal for the Grants:IEG initiative advertised above. The proposal is entitled: "Dedicated Programming Compiler" and can be found at url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Dedicated_Programming_Compiler#Measures_of_success. Please feel free to include yourself at any participatory level. Also, if you personally know a WMF dedicated mainframer who has sufficient background installing or firewalling computer langauge compilers, please let us know so that we can see if they might be interested. There may by real money in this! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
• Writing Requirements Specifications A Wikiversity Workshop
• Web Design - Although not specifically a CS topic, this collection of materials imported from Wikibooks is fairly complete and relevant.
• Apache MySQL PHP on Mac OS X

• Open Source Degree Confirmation
• Introduction to Information Technology
• Learning to learn a wiki way
• Design Engineering

Local articles:

• Internet - a local learning resource that takes a look at the Internet from a technical perspective