Intro

Objectives

  1. Understand how data is stored and processed in a computer system.
  2. Define bits and bytes, and use names, symbols and corresponding powers of 2 for binary prefixes (Ki, Mi).
  3. Differentiate between the character code of a decimal digit and its pure binary representation.
  4. Describe ASCII and Unicode coding systems and explain why Unicode was introduced.
  5. Describe methods used for error-checking and correction.

Resources

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Worksheet

Homework