Introduction to Computer Science

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the most important topics and basic notions in computer science. A self-contained topic is presented for each double lesson and practically deepened in the associated tutorial lesson. The lecture deals with topics such as algorithms, recursion, parallelism, analysis of algorithms, finite automata, computer networks, databases, operating systems, complexity, digital sustainability, data processing and visualization, discretization and graphs, cryptography, randomized algorithms, modeling and simulation. The lecture includes theoretical and practical exercises. No previous knowledge of computer science is required.