Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Data Representation in Computing: Bring Data to Life
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
This online course from the Raspberry Pi Foundation explored how computers do interesting things with data. It included character encoding, how images can be represented as bitmaps or vectors, and how sounds are sampled and represented digitally. It also covered the basics of compression.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Chief Learning Officer
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe how computers represent things in binary
- Explain common text encoding (ASCII and UTF-8)
- Investigate the physics of sound, and how sampling allows computers to represent sounds
- Compare lossy and lossless compression
- Evaluate whether to use a bitmap or a vector image
Syllabus
- Units of information
- Character encoding
- Representing images
- Representing sound
- Data compression
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Issued on 4th April 2022
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