For humans, this is usually represented using 1 and 0 …To use bits to represent anything at all besides bits, we need rules. Since a computer works with electricity, an “actual” bit is a blip of electricity that either is or isn’t there. A bit can only have two values: yes or no, true or false, 1 or 0 or whatever else you want to call these two values. The only thing it can store and work with are bits. “A computer cannot store “letters”, “numbers”, “pictures” or anything else. Zentgraf writes to us all about why anyone who reads and writes on a computer – even if it is only emails – needs to know some code background.
“Coding isn’t just for computer whizzes,” says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab, “it’s for everyone.” Watch this 2013 TEDx video in which Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just “read” new technologies. Look at articles linked below for more thoughts about why formal coding is an important part of any education:
Coding is thinking and planning in order to make things happen, and most people can do that, and indeed, spend their days doing it constantly in one form or another. Teaching kids to code has literally become child’s play. Can you decode the sample of Morse code in this audio file? Visit the links below for more digital ways of honing your coding skills:Īlthough the stories of codes used during World War II are fascinating parts of history (Navajo code breakers, and Bletchly Manor come to mind), Morse code is a more useful and easily learned “real” code.
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