Coding & Computers Classes for Adults

You tap a maps app. A street you have never photographed fills the screen. Nothing in your hand knows that street. The phone is a stack: switches on a chip, instructions in memory, packets on a radio, and a computer that is not in the room

You did not search. A list is already waiting. Traces become a metric, a sparse table, then a retrieve-and-rank funnel — not a mind-reader.

Understand how SKUs, GTINs, SSCCs, and warehouse scans connect physical goods to inventory events and traceability.

Follow a phone from radio cells and shared spectrum through handoff, backhaul, and the core network that connects it to the internet.

See how spinning platters, magnetic heads, tracks, sectors, and a drive controller turn physical motion into the data your computer reads.

Understand the connected networks, physical infrastructure, access conditions, and resilience behind online economic activity.

A click is input; code transforms it; a screen changes.

Read Truman's 1947 appeal for aid to Greece and Turkey as both a concrete regional program and a larger argument about American responsibility.

Two directors with one film behind them mimed an impossible shot at Will Smith, who passed. What they built instead was drawn on paper before it was filmed, shot in Sydney because it was cheap, tinted green because that is the colour of an old computer monitor — and then taken away from them by everybody else.

Understand how stress can redirect attention, disrupt encoding, consolidation, and retrieval, and make existing memories harder to access.

Trace forgetting from encoding and consolidation through interference, cue failure, retrieval competition, adaptive suppression, and functional change.

Follow ownership, product data, classification, valuation, origin, screening, permissions, testing, and corrective action through a trade compliance program.

A police poster from 1868, a box on the corner that overrules its own computer, and the wire under the tar that decides whether you get a green.

See how transparent electrodes, capacitance, scanning, and software turn a finger into a precise command.

See how finder patterns, module grids, encoding, masking, and error correction turn a square of contrast into useful data.

Packets, IP, DNS, and the layered mesh of networks that makes a webpage appear.

Read Kennedy?s Rice speech as a case study in how a difficult national goal becomes a public argument, a coordinated program, and a lasting political memory.

Follow encoding, synaptic plasticity, hippocampal binding, consolidation, retrieval, context, and forgetting.

You already do philosophy every time you write 'the model understands' or file a 'hallucination' bug — this course makes you do it on purpose. A practitioner-facing tour of the philosophy of mind and

Learn software architecture as a career skill: not diagrams, but the expensive-to-reverse decisions and the trade-offs behind them. From the layered monolith to microservices, async messaging, and the

AI safety, taught around one distinction the whole field turns on: building a capable system and reliably aiming it are different problems. Specification gaming, RLHF, interpretability, instrumental c

Instead of writing the rules, you show a program labeled examples and let it find the pattern — then watch that one idea all the way through models, training, and bias.

A computer can make a picture, a voice, or a video of something that never happened. The habit is not panic. It is how you check.

Every AI does exactly what its rules tell it to do — no more, no less. It has no wishes of its own. So the most important work of building an AI happens before any of it runs: a person has to decide t

Computers can learn — not by being told every rule, but by looking at lots of examples, finding the pattern, and then making a guess. Learn the three big steps behind machine learning, and see why mac

You can tell a cat from a dog in a blink — but how? By spotting patterns. In this course you'll practice sorting and pattern-finding, then discover that computers learn the very same way: by studying

Ever wonder how YouTube and Netflix guess what you'll want next? Peek behind the curtain: how the computer counts your clicks, matches you with people like you, and can trap you in a 'filter bubble' —

Artificial intelligence already helps decide big things — who gets a job, who can borrow money, even what a doctor looks for in a scan. But AI learns by copying examples, so if the examples are unfair

Training and running AI gulps electricity and water — but AI also forecasts storms and tracks disappearing forests. Weigh the real costs against the real benefits and learn to ask the smarter question

Will robots take everyone's jobs? Look closer and history tells a more interesting story: machines change WHICH jobs exist, retiring some and inventing others. Meet the newest machine — AI — see what

AI systems learn from data — and a lot of that data is about you. Find out what your devices collect, why companies want it, and how a few smart habits keep you in charge of your own digital footprint

An AI once guessed a person's gender from a photo. It was almost always right for lighter-skinned men — and wrong nearly a third of the time for darker-skinned women. How can a computer be so unfair?

Computers are hiding all around you — in the traffic light, the washing machine, and the phone that knows your face. This is your first peek inside. You'll learn that a computer is a helper that follo

When a video game enemy chases you, is it really thinking? In this course you'll discover how the computer players in games make their moves — by following rules a person wrote — and you'll learn what

Why does AI mishear you, autocorrect the wrong word, or confidently give a wrong answer? Peek inside an AI's 'brain' and discover the one big secret: it only knows what its examples showed it — so you

Who's smarter — a person or a computer? It's a trick question! Discover what computers are champions at (super-fast math, perfect memory) and what people are champions at (new ideas, feelings, common

A computer is not clever. It is one stupid trick — a switch that can throw another switch — repeated a few billion times and coordinated by a drumbeat. Build the whole tower yourself: NAND from two ki

Discover that the cloud is a place: glass fibers under streets and oceans, exchange buildings where networks meet, and warehouses of servers. You'll be able to trace your own packet's likely path acro

Learn how 99 percent of intercontinental data crosses the sea in cables the width of a garden hose. You'll understand how they are laid, powered, repaired mid-ocean, and why a fishing anchor can slow

You open the bonnet and see almost none of the computers running the car. A federation of ECUs on two shared wires, arbitrating without a referee.

Understand the rotor as a spinning wing and the swashplate as the trick that steers it. You'll be able to explain hovering, autorotation, and why helicopters are harder to fly — and to build — than ai

Look under the hood of the games you play. You'll understand game loops, physics, graphics, and AI and see how code turns input into a living, interactive world.

Trace the machines that built the modern world. You'll follow computing from mechanical calculators and code-breaking to the microchip, the PC, and the internet.

Understand what is really happening inside modern AI. You'll follow how models learn from data, what a neural network and a token are, and why language models sometimes fail.

Go deeper into how machines talk to each other. You'll understand the network layers, switching and routing, and how data finds its way across the world reliably.

Learn what the software beneath your apps really does. You'll understand processes, memory, files, and how an OS shares one machine among many programs.

Explore the math behind computing and logic. You'll work with sets, proofs, graphs, and counting arguments that underpin algorithms and cryptography.

Your washing machine has a powerful motor, a timer and a sophisticated program, and nobody calls it a robot. The difference is one number: the gap between where a machine is and where it should be.

Study the buildings that stood for centuries on geometry, rules of thumb, and nerve: Roman domes, Gothic vaults and buttresses, and Brunelleschi's double shell. You'll understand how masons managed fo

Move beyond the basics into structure and reuse. You'll work with data structures, classes, and modules and write programs that are organized and testable.

Write your first real programs in Python. You'll understand variables, loops, and functions and be able to build small scripts that solve everyday problems.

The documented history of the War of Currents: Edison's invention factory, Tesla's alternating-current genius, Westinghouse the forgotten third player, and an honest reckoning with the internet-era myths about both men.

Chess's 1,500-year journey, how masters really think (the pattern-recognition research), opening principles and tactical vocabulary explained, the great champions, the computer era from Deep Blue to AlphaZero, and what actually makes you better.

How a trick of the eye became an art form — from spinning zoetropes and hand-drawn dinosaurs to Disney's gambles, anime's parallel world, and Pixar's bet on computers.

From a dark box with a pinhole to the computer in your phone — the real optics and physics behind every photograph.

From packet switching and ARPANET's first crashed message to email, the Web, and the cables it lives on, how the internet was actually built and who runs it.

How a wall of numbers learns to guess what you'll watch next.

From pure noise to a finished picture, one denoising step at a time.

Follow your tap from screen to server and back

How humanity went from beeping satellite to bootprints on the Moon — in real NASA photographs.

How LLMs like ChatGPT train, tokenize, and respond