This course is more about teaching you how to engineer and how a computer actually works than it is about the languages. All computer software engineering follows similar principles and I have 40 years of engineering things from your mobile phone to the aircraft you fly in. Besides the software you will learn about computers - how they work, the history and background, the uses being made of them (far more than most people think). This background is not just for fun but it is to help understand the whys and whats of what we do. You will learn about: security - how to thwart the hackers by doing your code the right way. security in terms of signing and encryption of data both in the computer and between computers. safety critical systems like automotive control data processing strengths and weaknesses of some languages and approaches cloud up and coming trends such as 'codeless' programming and 'artificial intelligence' web pages and web backends