Intro

Objectives

  • Understand the use of binary codes to represent characters (1.2.1).
  • Understand the term ‘character set’ (1.2.1).
  • Explain the relationship between the number of bits per character in a character set, and the number of characters that can be represented using (1.2.1):
    • ASCII;
    • Extended ASCII;
    • Unicode.

Resources

Slides

Useful document

Main activity

Extension activity