1. Skills: None Concepts: Text editor versus word processor, information, text file, code, ASCII This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Text editor versus word processor

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation (text) – User skills

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7. Self-study questions When composing text to be pasted into a wiki page, should you use a word processor or a text editor? Explain When writing a term paper or job application cover letter, should you use a word processor or a text editor? Explain. We saw that the ASCII code used 7 bits to represent a letter. How many unique codes can we have using 7 bits? What is the reason for using a standard code like ASCII to encode text? Why not let different programs or operating systems use their own, competing codes? We saw “Hello my friend” written with both Word and a text editor. Which file contained the most information? Explain.

8. Resources Notepad is included with Windows, but is somewhat limited. Here are reviews of some free text editors: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-text-editor.htm If you want something that also includes features that are handy for program editing, see: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-programming-editor.htm And for editing Web pages: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-html-editor.htm ISO 8859-1 character standard – the code most commonly used in today’s text editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 Topic module on codes: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/10/data-code-information.html