I enjoyed learning about computer science - how computers run on binary numbers, detect and correct errors, and keep information protected. You should make a second guide in this series. I recommend Level to a lot of people in the prison that I am at. I enjoy learning and being with the Level community.
Prison Education Program
Computer Science Without A Computer Volume 1
Level’s computer science training for people in prison uses innovative strategies to teach the core concepts of computational thinking and computer science without even needing a computer or an internet connection. Learn how computers run on binary numbers, detect and correct common errors and keep information protected.
Enrollment fee is a one-time payment that includes this guide and Level's entire prison education program including all educational and job training guides and all certificates. No hidden monthly payments or recurring fees. The enrollment fee includes shipping.
What they'll learn:
- Understand the power of computers through binary numbers and binary math
- Learn how computers detect and fix errors through parity bits and check digits
- Explore how public, one-way functions can allow people who don’t trust each other and aren’t even in the same room to agree on the outcome of a coin flip
Guide includes:
Technical knowledge
Skill development
Quiz
Practice questions
Schedule
Self-guided - learners complete at their own paceGuide length
44 pagesTime to complete
~10 hoursWhat is Level?
Level is a popular, independent, nonprofit prison education program that offers education, career training and personal development for people in prison and connects with family members and supporters on the outside. Our unique approach can reach nearly any person at any prison, even those in high security or solitary confinement. 6,598 people in prison have spent 90,480 hours using the Level program inside 1,047 prisons across the country.
Testimonials for this guide:
- Diante, in prison in Illinois
I learned more from this guide than I have from a lot of the computer books I have been reading. This course was very good because they won't teach anything about computers here in prison. Thank you for all the work in putting this all together, and I look forward to my next lesson. Every day I love to learn.
- John, in prison in Connecticut
All of a sudden, the complexity of a computer's process is made clear - and it is not so complex! The instructions were simple. The insight was tremendous. In prison, they force religious studies and practices on you. Level has that relief of learning without being shoved full of righteous notions.
- Ashley, incarcerated in Oklahoma
