Info : Audio/video computer science lectures (for native speakers… and for you)

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Plusieurs universités anglophones ont mis en ligne des cours filmés accessibles tout à fait gratuitement. La plupart du temps, la transcription est jointe, parfois des sous-titres en anglais (CC) aident à la compréhension. Des matériaux supplémentaires (notes de cours, exercices, questions d’examen…) peuvent également être téléchargés.

Voilà des ressources qu’il serait dommage de ne pas explorer, en particulier pour ceux qui envisagent un stage à l’étranger.

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW)

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Harvard College

CS50 is Harvard College‘s introductory course in computer science, taught by David Malan (in 2009). Videos + PDFs of all handouts.

University of New South Wales (Australia)

Richard Buckland, a senior computer science lecturer at the University of NSW, who has pioneered the use of YouTube at Australian universities, is offering high school students the chance to get started on their computing degrees early.  So in 2008 he filmed all of his first-year computing lectures and published them on UNSW’s  YouTube channel and on Apple’s iTunes.

(Unfortunately, no transcripts I know of.)

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Info 1 (dépassement) : Learn more about the BIOS

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For those among you who are not too sure about the BIOS’s exact role :

How BIOS works (How Stuff Works, no date)

What does my computer’s BIOS do ? (Computeractive, 29 Nov. 2010)

The BIOS decrypted (article published in the November 2009 issue of PC Plus) :

« Our detailed guide to each BIOS menu explains the settings you can change, and the ones you really shouldn’t. With a little experimentation you’ll be able to discover useful information about your system, cut its boot time, extend battery life on a laptop and overclock your PC  for a performance boost. »
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