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Teach teens computing: Data representation
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Teach teens computing: Data representation

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Learn how data is represented through media, such as audio, visual, and text.

3 hrs/week3 weeksEnglish253 enrolled
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About this Course

Sign-ups for this course on edX are closing on the 16 February 2026 and it will be removed from edX on 31 March 2026. While we are retiring this particular course, you can continue learning about computing and computing education with us for free by visiting our new online courses platform, the Training Hub . We hope to see you on the Training Hub soon. The Raspberry Pi Foundation team --- 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, sound, compression, and other algorithms.

What You'll Learn

  • Describe how computers represent things in binary
  • Explain common text encoding (ASCII and UTF-8)
  • Investigate the physics of sound, and how sampling allows computers to represent sounds
  • Compare lossy and lossless compression
  • Evaluate whether to use a bitmap or a vector image

Instructors

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Matt Hogan

Learning Manager

Course Info

PlatformedX
LevelIntermediate
PacingUnknown
CertificateAvailable
PriceFree to Audit

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