Representing Data with Images and Sound: Bringing Data to Life CO209 / A01

Start date
21 Jan 19
Duration
10 Weeks
Location
Online Course

Summary

Learn how data is represented through media; audio, visual and text. This online course from the Raspberry Pi Foundation explores how computers do interesting things with data. You’ll discover how to represent and manipulate text, images and sound and compression and other algorithms.

Outcomes

You will:

  • Describe how computers represent things in binary.                                                                               
  • Explain common text encoding (ASCII and UTF-8).                                                                                 
  • Produce your own emoji in bitmap and vector form.                                                                              
  • Investigate the physics of sound, and how sampling allows computers to represent sounds.               
  • Compare lossy and lossless compression.

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Additional information

For courses at the National STEM Learning Centre in York, fees include meals and accommodation for the duration of the course. 

 

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