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Notas del curso CS50 de Harvard (vía EdX)

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CS no es sobre programación. La programación es solo una herramienta de CS.

CS se trata sobre resolver problemas.

Input -> (something something algorithm) -> Output

Abstractions

As long as you have two digits you can represent a lot of data.

Computers understand numbers in powers of two (BINARY).

ASCII (and later UNICODE) and RBG are examples of abstraction: using numbers to represent other things like letters and colors.

Algorithms are step by step instructions for solving a problem.

Even simple problems have a lot of opportunities to be solved.

We need to be extremely specific with our instructions. Because computers are not THAT smart, there can be a lot of ambiguedad.

Divide a problem into smaller problems, or a large set into a smaller set. Now you have the same objective but a smaller sample size, so, the solution can be found faster.

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