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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. Bitwise operations
3. C without the ++
  - Optional: into to C
  - Optional: strings in C
  - Optional: files in C
  - Optional: memory in C
4. Processors
  1. Processor Hardware
  2. ISAs and Assembly
5. Kernel Mode
6. Memory
7. Design
  1. Debugging and Avoiding Bugs
  2. Basics of Software Design
Part 2: Concurrency and synchronization, including the basics of operating systems and threads
1. Concurrency
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
  2. Using sockets
3. Python – here not because it’s related to the other topics here but because we’re switching languages at this point in the course
4. Synchronization
5. Thread Safety
6. RESTful Web APIs
Part 3: interaction between systems written by different parties, including various as a Service models such as containerization and web services.
1. Caching
2. X as a Service
3. Isolating code (including file permissions, containers, and virutal machines)
4. Storage
5. Authentication