Characters as Binary
Review
What are characters?
What is binary?
What is the importance of this concept?
Learning objectives
Characters, words and messages are represented as binary
numbers in the storage and transmission of data.
Success criteria
Identify characters and binary, decimal and hexadecimal numbers
Complete the missing fields of the ASCII table
Overview
Number systems
Activity 1 - Distinguish among numbers
Text
ASCII
Activity 2 - Complete the ASCII table
Activity 3 - Manual translation of binary-ascii
Activity 4 - Design an ASCII converter
Unicode
Activity 5 - Use library functions for conversion
Images
Recap
