Welcome to the World of 0s and 1s! This is an all-new experimental series of online lessons which teach you the basics of computing. It is written in HTML5, an amazing new technology mostly built upon earlier technologies with awesome graphics and interactive capabilities, and hosted on Newgrounds, an equally amazing website on the WWW cutting edge. I'm FlyingColours, a nobody, and in this lesson, I'm going to show you the bare basics of computing: How binary works. In this lesson, we will:
- Discuss the differences between analogue and digital data
- Understand how binary works
- Understand bits, bytes and words
- Discover what parity bits are and how they help validate data
- Represent Boolean values and unsigned integers in binary
What are you waiting for? Let's embark on our journey of learning! Click on the cut-off corner to begin!