Digital Code

This section contains links to help you answer the questions in the Google document called Digital Code Worksheet. Click here to open it and save a copy in your Google Drive as digitalcodeyourfullname.

For the Intel activities, read the text and click on the graphics and also make sure you watch the movies for each page.

Binary Numbers

1. Intel Lesson 1:  What is Binary Code?
2. Intel Lesson 2:  A Bit of This and a Bit of That
   
3. Intel Lesson 4 (Binary Numbers), including Activity 1 and Activity 2 
4. OPTIONAL EXTRA CHALLENGE:  Intel Lesson 5 plus activity 
5. KB, MB, GB:  How Much Memory Does My Computer Have?

Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 on the Google document.

ASCII Code

Do all the parts of Intel Lesson 6 (ASCII-An Alphabet for Computers), including Activity 1, 2 and 3. (Make sure you do Activity 2 with a friend; each of you should send a message and then try to decode it. ALSO:  Make sure you PRINT A COPY OF THE ASCII CHART IN ACTIVITY 3 and save it in your manila folder.)

Answer questions 4, 5 and 6 on the Google document.

WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED: Just for fun, check out these episodes from a TVOntario program made in 1983, called "Bits and Bytes." As you watch think about not only how much has changed, but also how much is still true today! (Here's a little Park School history note: the beginning of Episode 3 shows someone writing a program on an Apple IIe...almost exactly the way my own students at Park School learned programming--in 1987!)