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Introduction to Computers
Circuits and Switches
Digital Information
Microprocessors
The Internet
Technology and Society
Digital Information
Lesson 6: ASCII—An Alphabet for Computers
 
Lesson 1: What Is Binary Code?
Lesson 2: A Bit of This and That
Lesson 3: How Computers Work with Pictures
Lesson 4: Binary Numbers
Lesson 5: Adding Binary Numbers
Lesson 6: ASCII, An Alphabet For Computers
  Activity 1: The Name Game
  Activity 2: Secret Messages With ASCII
  Activity 3: The ASCII Code Chart
Lesson 7: Can You Go To The Movies?

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ASCII—An Alphabet For Computers
Bits, the 0s and 1s of binary code, can be used in many different ways to represent information. To make it easier for computers to communicate with each other, a standard language has been created: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).

ASCII is an 8-bit code. It uses eight bits to represent a letter, number, or punctuation mark. For instance, a lower case "a" is represented by 0110 00012. The word "cat" would be:



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