Crash Course Computer Science
This course provides a rapid introduction to computer science fundamentals, focusing on practical applications in digital text processing and analysis.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Crash Course Computer Science offers you a quick, hands-on way to work confidently with digital texts. You will create a basic analysis tool, specify inputs and outputs, and grasp how data is modelled, stored, and indexed. Learn essential algorithms for tokenisation, frequency counts, and entity extraction, along with important ideas on bias, ethics, networking, and file formats so you can manage small, useful text projects independently.
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Develop skills
- Design simple text tools: transform humanities questions into straightforward algorithms.
- Model and store text data: organise corpora using UTF-8, JSON, and metadata.
- Run basic text analysis: tokenise, count words, and extract names and places.
- Critically assess results: identify bias, OCR limitations, and ethical concerns.
- Connect the stack: understand files, databases, and web access for text projects.
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