Computer Science · 5th Year · Data, Information, and Systems · 3.º Período
How Computers Represent Data
Pupils discover how computers use binary code to represent text, images, and sound. They decode simple binary messages.
NCCA Curriculum SpecificationsNCCA Primary Mathematics: Number - NumerationNCCA Primary Mathematics: Computational Thinking
About This Topic
Pupils discover how computers use binary code to represent text, images, and sound. They decode simple binary messages.
Key Questions
- What is binary code?
- How can numbers represent letters and colours?
- Why do computers use a base-2 system?
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