Articles and videos introducing computer science topics

You have some time free and would like to spend it on learning something interesting? Here are some recommendations. This list was originally put together for use by a few students who are going to engineering school in a couple of months. However, it would be useful to a variety of people, young and old, who are interested in learning some computer science, irrespective of the subject they studied, or are studying, for their degree.

1.       https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-mitx-6-00-1x-7
You can audit any EDX course and pay no fees. Video lectures are good. You do not have any commitment to complete the course. You can take online exams and get your mark sheets

2.       Introduction to cellular technology. A very useful introduction. http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/cellulartelecomms/cellular_concepts/mobile-basics-concepts.php  A set of URLs for more information on specific topics is given at the end. They are useful to get additional information.

3.       http://vfu.bg/en/e-Learning/Computer-Networks--Introduction_Computer_Networking.pdf    

4.       http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/manual/node1.html

5.       Linear Algebra http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~len/LinAlg/

The books on Linear Algebra and on Discrete Maths do not have to be completed at a stretch. You can read one or more chapters at a time.

6.       http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~bagchi/courses/discrete-book/fullbook.pdf

For most topics the Wikipedia chapter is usually the best introduction. Books, articles and other forms of text are not the only sources of scholarly information. Selected videos from Ted talks and YouTube are very useful too. I find the videos at  www.edx.org providing serious coverage of a topic most useful for learning from. Ted talks and YouTube videos are shorter and provide introduction, inspiration and overviews. 

In general, I trust sites that are in the .edu domain more than the ones in .com domain. But there are many useful articles on .com sites as well; for example, https://www.batterystuff.com/kb/articles/solar-articles/solar-info.html

You will find the following items interesting.

7.       http://inventionconvention.com/americasinventor/dec97issue/section2.html

8.       http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-test-can-a-computer-pass-for-a-human-alex-gendler

9.       http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-test-can-a-computer-pass-for-a-human-alex-gendler#review

10.   https://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

11.   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7032F8EB1A4F9E2

                                                                        ----