Week 1 - History

• One writing system can be used by many languages
• Cuneiform looks weird
• The Epic of Gilgamesh was epic

  Week 2 - Bits and Bytes

• How computer memory works
• Short-term RAM memory vs persistent storage
• Representation of numbers and characters in computer memory
• ASCII table

  Week 3 - Structure of a text file

  Punctuation, whitespace, line breaks Markup and markup languages, raw vs rendered view. MarkDown, HTML Structured data, JSON and XML formats Special characters and escaping

  Week 4 - Keyboards, touch-typing and keyboard shortcuts

• Text editors - notepad, vi, VSCode
• Searching in text - wildcards and the basics of regexp
• Lab prep – GitHub Pages

  Week 5 - Command Line Interface (CLI) - history and value

• SSH - The (almost) universal remote control
• Transferring files sftp and scp
• ASCII based full screen UIs that are still common thanks to CLI
• Powerful CLI tools like grep and tmux