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How Software Runs

This is where the path starts, assuming no technical background at all. It explains what a computer is doing when software runs, how code becomes a running application, how the web works, and what DevOps engineers actually do. Every later…

Modules

8

Lessons

56

Level

About This Course

This is where the path starts, assuming no technical background at all. It explains what a computer is doing when software runs, how code becomes a running application, how the web works, and what DevOps engineers actually do. Every later course builds on the vocabulary introduced here. By the end of this course, students can Explain what the main parts of a computer do and how an operating system manages them Describe how source code becomes software running on a server Trace a web request from the browser to a server and back Explain the difference between physical servers, virtual machines, containers and the cloud Describe what DevOps is, what DevOps engineers do, and where each tool in this path fits

What's Inside

  1. 1

    Inside a computer

    6 lessons

  2. 2

    Operating systems

    8 lessons

  3. 3

    From code to running software

    7 lessons

  4. 4

    Networks and the web

    7 lessons

  5. 5

    How applications are built

    8 lessons

  6. 6

    Where applications run

    6 lessons

  7. 7

    What DevOps is

    8 lessons

  8. 8

    Learning like an engineer

    6 lessons

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Every lesson in the Associate DevOps and Cloud Engineering path, on this page and as a PDF.

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