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Online informatics courses for high school and admission to university/college

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You can enroll in our online courses at any time:

  1. Please contact us via chat on this website to pre-agree a planned start date of your classes for specific online course.
  2. Immediately after prior agreement do purchase specific agreed online courses.
  3. After your purchase, we will schedule the start of your classes as previously agreed and give you all the necessary instructions.

Refer to "Purchases and Payments" section (link) of the "Terms and Conditions" (link).

Refreshing knowledge and skills:

If refreshing is requested, we assume that you already have good understanding of the given subject matter and will focus to refresh your knowledge as quick as possible. You will receive same or more concise instruction and less time-consuming, but more advanced exercises. This will allow you to proceed at a times faster pace and is therefore recommended when there are tight deadlines.

Learn with personal tutor:

If learning with personal tutor is requested, we ensure that the same dedicated tutor will closely monitor your progress in the specified online course or courses for which the personal tutor was requested. This provides more accurate, student-specific, highly personalized tutoring: instruction, motivation, clarification of concepts and assistance to reinforce learning. However, personal tutoring may proceed at a slower pace due to scheduling challenges that we face then and is therefore recommended only when there are no tight deadlines.

Individual or group courses

You can enroll in any of our online courses with your own group of students (e.g. your friends, classmates, just random study mates, etc.) to take that course together, which allows to discount per-student price by almost half. The larger your group, the lower the price per student, and even a group of just 2 students (i.e. you and someone else) allows you to apply a significant discount. For any course, the page you are currently viewing displays the single-student (i.e. individual course) price, as well as the per-student price of the same course for your group of, at the moment, 3 students. Instead, get this page with prices for your group of any (from 2 to 10) number of students:

Computer: hardware and software, file system

You will know:

  • Safety and hygiene requirements for working with computers and other digital components.
  • Principles of computer operation.
  • Personal computer.
  • Selecting computer configurations based on tasks.
  • Major trends in computer technology.
  • Parallel computing.
  • Multiprocessor systems.
  • Supercomputers.
  • Distributed computing systems and big data processing.
  • Microcontrollers.
  • Robotic production.
  • Computer software: types and purposes.
  • Software specifics for mobile devices.
  • Operating systems.
  • Introduction to system administration.
  • Software installation and uninstallation.
  • File system: searching within, organizing data storage and processing with cloud technologies, mobile devices, and internet services.
  • Software tools for specialized tasks.
  • Computer-aided design (CAD) systems.
  • Russian Federation laws on software.
  • Software licensing and digital resources: proprietary vs. open-source software.
  • Commercial and non-commercial use.
  • Legal responsibilities for unauthorized software use.

You can now either:

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Systematic long-term Informatics preparation for university/college admission and high school final exams (30% off)

You will know:

  • Computer: hardware and software, file system
  • Information and information processes
  • Information representation in computers
  • Elements of algebraic logic
  • Technologies for processing text, graphics, and multimedia
  • Network information technologies
  • Fundamentals of social informatics
  • Information modeling
  • Algorithms and elements of programming
  • Spreadsheets
  • Databases
  • Artificial intelligence tools

The 30% discount of this Course applies to the total cost of the Bundle of courses that consists of the Courses (as if purchased individually) covered by this Course. Any Course that have been started, including this Course, is not refundable, see our Terms and Conditions.

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Information and information processes

You will know:

  • Information, data, and knowledge.
  • Universality of discrete information representation.
  • Binary coding: uniform vs. non-uniform codes, Fano’s condition.
  • Error-detecting and correcting coding methods.
  • Information measurement approaches: volumetric (alphabet-based) and probabilistic.
  • Bit definitions based on alphabet size and symbol weight.
  • Information units: bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte.
  • Information processes: transmission, storage, processing, and retrieval.
  • Information transmission: source, receiver, signal, and channel.
  • Data distortion, transmission speed, and storage capacity.
  • Types of data processing and their real-world role.
  • Systems, components, control processes, and feedback.

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Custom informatics preparation course for university/college admission and high school final exams (20% off, if above 500 USD)

You will know:

  • Custom informatics preparation topics tailored to individual needs.

You can arrange for your custom Course by contacting client support via website chat.

The 20% discount of the custom Course applies to the total cost of the Bundle of courses that consists of the Courses (as if purchased individually) covered by Custom Course, if that total cost exceeds 500 USD. Any Course that have been started, including custom Course, is not refundable, see our Terms and Conditions.

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Information representation in computers

You will know:

  • Numeral systems: positional notation for integers and fractions.
  • Positional system properties: divisibility and digit count.
  • Conversion algorithms: from P-base to decimal, from decimal to P-base, binary, octal, hexadecimal conversions.
  • Arithmetic operations in positional systems.
  • Computer memory representation: integers and floating-point numbers.
  • Text encoding: ASCII, single-byte, UNICODE, UTF-8.
  • Estimating text information volume.
  • Image encoding: raster graphic data evaluation by resolution and color depth.
  • Sound encoding: evaluating audio data by sampling rate and bit depth.

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Elements of algebraic logic

You will know:

  • Algebra of logic.
  • Propositions.
  • Logical operations.
  • Truth tables for logical operations: "disjunction," "conjunction," "negation," "implication," and "equivalence."
  • Logical expressions.
  • Calculating the logical value of a compound proposition given the values of its elementary components.
  • Truth tables for logical expressions.
  • Logical operations and set operations.
  • Examples of algebraic logic laws.
  • Equivalent transformations of logical expressions.
  • Solving simple logical equations.
  • Logical functions.
  • Constructing logical expressions based on given truth tables.
  • Normal forms: disjunctive and conjunctive.
  • Logical computer elements.
  • Flip-flop.
  • Adder.
  • Constructing a logic circuit based on a logical expression.
  • Writing logical expressions from a given circuit.

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Technologies for processing text, graphics, and multimedia

You will know:

  • Word processor.
  • Editing and formatting.
  • Spell checking and grammar tools.
  • Search and replace functions in text processors.
  • Using styles.
  • Structured text documents.
  • Footnotes, table of contents.
  • Cloud services.
  • Collaborative work on documents.
  • Reviewing tools in word processors.
  • Business correspondence.
  • Report writing.
  • Rules for citing sources and formatting bibliographic references.
  • Formatting bibliographies.
  • Introduction to desktop publishing.
  • Specialized tools for editing mathematical texts.
  • Input of images using various digital devices (digital cameras, microscopes, video cameras, scanners, etc.).
  • Graphics editor.
  • Processing graphic objects.
  • Raster and vector graphics.
  • Graphic file formats.
  • Creating and transforming audiovisual objects.
  • Image and sound processing with internet applications.
  • Multimedia.
  • Computer presentations.
  • Using online multimedia services for project presentations.
  • Principles of constructing and editing 3D models.
  • Mesh models.
  • Materials.
  • Modeling light sources.
  • Cameras.
  • Additive technologies (3D printers).
  • Introduction to virtual and augmented reality.

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Network information technologies

You will know:

  • Principles of network construction and hardware components.
  • Network protocols.
  • The Internet.
  • Internet addressing.
  • Domain Name System (DNS).
  • Website.
  • Web page.
  • Interaction between browser and web server.
  • Dynamic pages.
  • Developing web applications (websites).
  • Network data storage.
  • Internet activities and services.
  • Geographic information systems.
  • Real-time geolocation services (e.g., mobile phone location, traffic congestion detection).
  • E-commerce, ticket and hotel booking.
  • Government e-services.
  • Social networks – collaborative interaction and data exchange.
  • Network etiquette: behavior rules in cyberspace.
  • Authenticity issues of received information.
  • Open educational resources.

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Fundamentals of social informatics

You will know:

  • Technological and economic risks associated with the use of information and communication technologies.
  • General issues of data protection and information security.
  • Tools for securing data in computers, networks, and automated information systems.
  • Legal framework for information security.
  • Electronic signatures, certified websites, and documents.
  • Preventing unauthorized access to personal and confidential information stored on personal computers and mobile devices.
  • Malicious software and ways to combat it.
  • Antivirus programs.
  • Organizing personal information archives.
  • Backup and password protection of archives.
  • Data encryption.
  • Information technologies and professional activities.
  • Information resources.
  • Digital economy.
  • Information culture.

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Information modeling

You will know:

  • Models and modeling.
  • Goals of modeling.
  • The adequacy of models to the objects or processes being modeled.
  • Formalization of applied problems.
  • Presenting modeling results in human-readable forms.
  • Graphical data representation (schemes, tables, graphs).
  • Graphs: key concepts and types.
  • Solving algorithmic tasks related to graph analysis (finding optimal paths between graph vertices, determining the number of paths between vertices of a directed acyclic graph).
  • Trees and binary trees.
  • Two-player discrete games with complete information.
  • Constructing a game tree, describing strategies in tabular form.
  • Winning strategies.
  • Using graphs and trees to describe real-world objects and processes.

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Algorithms and elements of programming

You will know:

  • Determining the possible outcomes of basic control and computational algorithms.
  • Identifying input data that yield desired results.
  • Steps for solving tasks on a computer.
  • Programming languages (Pascal, Python, Java, C++, C#).
  • Core programming language constructs.
  • Data types: integers, real numbers, characters, booleans.
  • Conditional statements, compound conditions.
  • Loops: conditional and variable-driven.
  • Using trace tables.
  • Developing and implementing algorithms to solve basic tasks.
  • Example tasks: algorithms for processing numerical sequences (sums, products, counting specific elements), analyzing positional numeral systems, solving tasks using brute-force methods (e.g., finding the greatest common divisor, prime checking).
  • Processing character data.
  • Built-in programming language functions for string manipulation.
  • Text editing algorithms (replacing, deleting, inserting characters/fragments, pattern matching).
  • Arrays and two-dimensional arrays (matrices).
  • Algorithms for array operations with single pass-through: summing elements, counting elements meeting conditions, finding the maximum/minimum value, second largest/smallest value, linear search, reversing array order.
  • Sorting arrays (bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort).
  • Subroutines and recursive algorithms.
  • Computational complexity: number of operations, memory usage, dependence on input size.

You can now either:

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Spreadsheets

You will know:

  • Data analysis.
  • Main tasks of data analysis: forecasting, classification, clustering, anomaly detection.
  • Sequence of solving data analysis tasks: collecting raw data, cleaning and assessing data quality, selecting or building a model, data transformation, data visualization, result interpretation.
  • Data mining.
  • Data analysis using spreadsheets.
  • Calculating sum, arithmetic mean, maximum and minimum values of a range.
  • Calculating the correlation coefficient between two data series.
  • Fitting trend lines, solving forecasting tasks.
  • Computer-mathematical models.
  • Stages of computer-mathematical modeling: problem statement, model development, model testing, computer experiment, analysis of modeling results.
  • Examples: motion simulation, biological system modeling, mathematical models in economics.
  • Numerical equation solving using parameter adjustments.
  • Optimization as the search for the best solution under given conditions.
  • Objective function, constraints.
  • Solving optimization tasks using spreadsheets.

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Databases

You will know:

  • Tabular (relational) databases.
  • A table as a representation of information about homogeneous objects.
  • Field, record.
  • Table key.
  • Working with a ready-made database.
  • Database filling.
  • Search, sorting, and filtering of records.
  • Data selection queries.
  • Parameterized queries.
  • Calculated fields in queries.
  • Multi-table databases.
  • Types of relationships between tables.
  • Foreign key.
  • Integrity.
  • Queries to multi-table databases.

You can now either:

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Artificial intelligence tools

You will know:

  • Artificial intelligence tools.
  • Machine translation and speech recognition services.
  • Image identification and search, facial recognition.
  • Self-learning systems.
  • Artificial intelligence in computer games.
  • Use of artificial intelligence methods in educational systems.
  • Application of artificial intelligence methods in robotics.
  • Internet of Things.
  • Prospects for the development of intelligent computer systems.

You can now either:

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