Julia Roebuck
Tutor and Founder
About the instructor
With a degree in Computer Science and over 20 years of business experience in coding, Julia has extensive knowledge of many programming languages, and development techniques.
She currently teaches A Level, IGCSE, KS3 and coding using virtual classrooms.
Each course is carefully structured to enable all levels of students to learn and progress in their chosen computing area.
The recorded courses are based on her highly successful live lessons, which have enabled 97% of her students to gain their IGCSE Computer Science Qualification.
Course Contents
85 Videos
1 Multimedia
16 Texts
Course Curriculum
Introduction to Computer Science Part 1
50:48
- Introduction
- A (very) brief history of computers
- Inside a computer : Motherboard & CPU
- Inside a computer: Hard Disk, Card reader, DVD
- Inside a computer: Wireless Adapter, Power Supply
- Inside a computer:Desktop and Laptops
- Understanding specs of computers
- Software vs Hardware & System Software
- Software: Operating System Functions
- Software: Application Software 1
- Software: Application Software 2
- Software: Bespoke software
- Software: Installing Software
- Types of Software - Questions
- Types of Software - Answers
Introduction to Computer Science Part 2
32:20
Aspects of Computer Science
126:53
- Human Computer Interaction Intro
- Bad HCI Examples
- More HCI examples
- Different ways humans interact with computers
- WIMP
- HCI in the real world example
- Think about the user
- Article - Why Apple iTunes is badly designed.
- Task: HCI
- Introduction to Testing
- More about Testing
- Famous Software Testing Blunders
- Video - Hartford Civic Center roof collapse
- Designing Software/Wireframes 1
- Designing Software/Wireframes 2
- Designing Software/Wireframes 3
- Task: Wireframes
- Digital Sound 1
- Digital Sound 2
- Digital Sound 3
- Digital Sound 4
- Digital Image 1
- Task: Audio Files
- Digital Images 2
- Digital Images 3
- Digital Images 4
- Task: Pixel Art
- Networks (LANs)
- Networks (LANs 2)
- Networks (LANs 3)
- Networks: Wired vs Wireless LAN
- Networks: Bluetooth
- Networks: WANs, Internet, VPN
- Video - What do Network Administrators do?
The Internet
85:46
- Introduction
- Internet History - Overview
- Internet History - World War Two
- Internet History - Pre-Internet Computing
- Internet History - Research Networks
- Internet History - World Wide Web & present day
- What exactly is the internet?
- Who owns the Internet?
- Your internet connection....
- How to connect to the Internet
- The Internet of Things
- Internet Security 1
- Internet Security 2
- Internet Security 3
- Staying Safe on the Internet
- WWW - Intro
- WWW - URLs
- WWW - Browsers
- WWW - domain extensions and protocols
- HTML 1
- HTML 2
- Create your own HTML web page
Electronics and Logic Gates
39:41
- Electronics - Intro
- Logic Gates 1
- AND Gates
- OR Gate
- NOT Gate
- Other Logic Gates
- Digital Circuits
- Task: Logic Gates
- Current and Voltage
- Parallel and Series Circuits
- Resistors and LEDs
- Task: Create your own circuits
- Semiconductors
- Integrated circuits
- Breadboards
- Resistor Values
- Task: Resistors and electronic circuits