Wednesday Coding/Binary!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week for coding/binary we have been learning how to do ASCII and making bracelets or keychains with our initials in them. Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers. You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it. ASCII is set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard). I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code. Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below. What do you think? Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII? Could you have a try for yourself? Can you work out how to write your initials in ASCII from the pattern below? Can you guess what my initials are, from the image below?