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Text Chapters

Part 1: How computers are designed and operate, from electrons up to C
1. Binary, Hex, Bytes, and Data
  - Optional: longer discussion of binary and other bases
  - Optional: longer discussion of bits and numbers
  - Optional: alternate take on UTF-8
2. C without the ++
  - Optional: intro to C
  - Optional: strings in C
  - Optional: files in C
  - Optional: memory in C
3. Bitwise operations
4. Processors
  1. Processor Hardware
  2. ISAs and Assembly
5. Kernel Mode
6. Memory
7. Design
  1. Debugging and Avoiding Bugs
Part 2: Concurrency and synchronization, including the basics of operating systems and threads
1. Sockets
2. Concurrency
3. Python – here not because it’s related to concurrency and synchronization, but because we’re switching languages at this point in the course
4. Synchronization
5. Async python
6. Network protocols
7. Thread Safety
8. RESTful Web APIs
9. The aiohttp framework
10. Authentication
Part 3: interaction between systems written by different parties, including various as a Service models such as containerization and web services.
1. Using Shells
2. Isolating code (including file permissions, containers, and virutal machines)
3. Containers such as Docker
4. X as a Service
5. Caching
6. Storage