Introduction to computer science (2nd ed.)
Introducción al Curso
The course provides the background on important topics of computer science: Algorithms, Programming and Databases.Regarding algorithms, we introduce the concept of asympthotic notation, we describe simple data structures and we introduce different algorithms for ordering objects and visit graphs.
Regarding programming, we supply a general overview of the two most important programming paradigms (imperative and object-oriented). For each one we provide several usage examples.
Informatica, Gestión y Análisis de datos
Horas de Entrenamiento12
NivelBeginner
Tutoría
English
Duraciòn5 Semana
TipologíaOnline
Archivado
Agenda del Curso
Apertura del Curso
Cierra Curso
Resultados de Aprendizaje
Basic knowledge of basic algorithms and simple data structures, understanding of the basic principles of programming languages and databases.
Conocimiento Recomendado
Basic math
Libros de texto y lecturas recomendadas
Introduction to Algorithms, third edition, T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, C. Stein, MIT press, 2009.
Garcia-Molina, Hector. Database Systems: The Complete Book. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.
Abiteboul, S. Foundations of Databases. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Elmasri, Ramez, and Sham Navathe. Fundamentals of Database Systems. 6th ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011.
Silberschatz, Abraham, Henry F Korth, and S Sudarshan. Database System Concepts. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.
Formato del Curso
The course includes five teaching units divided in as many weeks. Each teaching unit will present a main topic that will be divided in its basic concepts through several videos for about 10 minutes. The teaching units will be distributed among the three main topics covered by the course.Reglas para la obtención de certificados y Exámenes
Costo del Certificado de Participación
You can have the Certificate of Attendance after watching all video lectures and answering at least 7 questions out of 10 of each test correctly (you can retry each answer twice).
