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Coursera – Programming Languages; University of Washington [171 videos (MP4) + Course Materials]
English | Size: 2.06 GB (2,214,590,966 bytes)
Category: Comp: Languages / Databases

Learn many of the concepts that underlie all programming languages. Use functional programming and contrast it with object-oriented programming. Through experience writing programs and studying three different languages, learn the key issues in designing and using programming languages, such as modularity and the complementary benefits of static and dynamic typing. This course is neither particularly theoretical nor just about programming specifics – it will give you a framework for understanding how to use language constructs effectively and how to design correct and elegant programs. By using different languages, you learn to think more deeply than in terms of the particular syntax of one language. The emphasis on functional programming is essential for learning how to write robust, reusable, composable, and elegant programs – in any language.
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Coursera – Hardware Software Interface; University of Washington [67 videos (MP4) + 62 slides (PPTX)]
English | Size: 1.18 GB (1,270,446,369 bytes)
Category: Comp: Networking / Hardware

This course should develop students’ sense of “what really happens” when software runs – and convey that this question can be answered at several levels of abstraction, including the hardware architecture level, the assembly level, the C programming level and the Java programming level. The core around which the course is built is C, assembly, and low-level data representation, but this is connected to higher levels (roughly how basic Java could be implemented), lower levels (the general structure of a processor), and the role of the operating system (but not how the operating system is implemented).
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