1. 1000011 1100001 1110100

2. It is pronounced ‘askee’

3. the American Standard Code for Information Interchange

4. is the standard code used by computers everywhere to represent the things you can type using the keyboard

5. How many keys are there on a normal keyboard?

7. 6 bits can store 64 characters 7 bits can store 128 characters 8 bits can store 256 characters 16 bits can store 65536 characters

8. 1000011 1100001 1110100

9.  On a blank sheet of paper, write your secret message (no more than three words)  Using the ASCII chart, lookup the binary values for each letter and write it down in a series  Don’t forget the spaces between your letters  Give your encoded message to a friend  Have them decode the message back into text

10. (( (..) (( v )) ---m-m---

11. ASCII is the most widely used character set

12. languages such as German, French, Finnish, Irish, Icelandic etc take advantage of the other 128 spaces to include their own special characters. e.g. the German umlaut ü is 11011100

13. Привет мир こんにちは、世界 مرحبا العالم

14. Extended ASCII (8 bits – 256 characters) UTF-8 (8 bits – 256 characters) Unicode (16 bits – 65536 characters)