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How computers really work
Sprint 1

🧑🏾‍💻 prep

Overview description of the prep work for the sprint

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Read about binary numbers
Read about CPU and RAM
Individual shell tools

Read about binary numbers

30 minutes ⏱

Learning Objectives

Express a decimal arithmetic problem in binary
Add together two binary numbers

Read about binary numbers

Read chapters 1 and 2 of How Computers Work.

Read about CPU and RAM

30 minutes ⏱

Learning Objectives

TODO: Something about CPU and RAM

Read about CPU and RAM

Read chapter 7 of How Computers Work.

Shell tools

30 minutes ⏱

Learning Objectives

Complete up to level 30 on the Bandit repeatedly
Identify which of {ls, cat, tr, wc, sed, awk} will be useful to solve a given problem
List the files in a directory with ls
Show the contents of a file with cat
Show the contents of a file, including line numbers, with cat
Replace all occurrences of one character with another using tr
Count the bytes, words, and lines of a file with wc
Count just the words of a file with wc
Remove numbers from the start of lines in a file with sed
Filter a space-separated file and extract a positional field using awk

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