The ASCII chart assigns a character to each value represented by a byte (8 bits binary). It is made up of upper and lowercase Roman letters, numbers, and special characters.

Check out this nice web app that lets you code in and decode from the binary number system to plain English. Using an ASCII chart, these values can be mapped to characters and text can be stored ...

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001. Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!”. Any code that uses just ...

Unlike our everyday counting system that uses tens, binary uses just two numbers, 0 and 1. Learn more with BBC Bitesize. Suitable for KS3 students.

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code ...

Binary code is the language of computers and electronic devices. The use of binary numbers date back to ancient Egypt, but it was 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm ...