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SPEAKER 1: Called
algorithms as we'll soon

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see that implement what is
underneath there, the hood.

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But these inputs--

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DOUG LLOYD: So I'm about to sort
of dive into our first major topic

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here, which is binary numbers,
which might be a little bit

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surprising, if you think about
it in your science class.

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We really are starting it at the
very, most fundamental concept here.

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DAVID J. MALAN: It is, but I've
wrestled with this opening to the class

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too, because there's a lot
of students these days that

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are a little uncomfortable
with mathematics

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or just assume that it's going
to be a very math heavy field.

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And I've not wanted to send the
message through arithmetic even,

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at the start of the semester that
that's exactly what your fears are

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and confirming those.

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But the reality is,
I actually think this

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is pretty empowering, to use these
first few minutes of the class,

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and empower students
to actually understand

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something they've probably heard about.

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Ones and zeros and binary.

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And really just open that--

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take the hood off and look
inside and understand, oh,

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it's really just like my
grade school based ten system.

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DOUG LLOYD: Exactly, you bring
them right back to something

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that they're really familiar with.

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Ones place, tens place,
hundreds place and extrapolate

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that to ones, twos,
and fours and suddenly

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five minutes into their first computer
science class, possibly students

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are capable of conversing in binary.

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DAVID J. MALAN: Yeah, no absolutely.

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And the fact that it is so relatively
simple, just the arithmetic behind it,

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I think is also pretty reassuring.

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Like, oh OK, this
makes sense, especially

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if you bring it back to a topic with
which they've long been familiar.

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It really isn't as new or as
scary as they've perhaps thought.

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DOUG LLOYD: Yeah, exactly.

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