BINARY

- Computers use binary, "bi" implying that computers have 2 digits

- BIT (binary digit)
- A BIT is a 0 or a 1
- A lightbulb that is off represents a 0 and a lightbulb that is on represents a 1
- Inside a computer there are millions of transistors that can be either flipped off to represent
0's or on to represent 1's
- The more "lightbulbs" or BITS that we have the more high up we can count by turning them
on
- We can represent higher numbers with creating patterns
ex. with 3 lightbulbs we can count up to 7
- Base-2 = Binary
- 8 BITS are in a BYTE
- 8 BITS is how the computer normally represents 0 "00000000"

00000000

REPRESENTATION

- Representing letters of the alphabet

- "A" is represented in PCs, phones, etc as 65 01000001
- The ASCII proposes a mapping between numbers and letters

- Unicode: an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts,
by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across
different platforms and programs.
ALGORITHMS

- An abstraction is to simplify things so you don’t have to worry about the low level details
ex. I drive a car but I don’t know how each system or engine inside of it works.

- Pseudocode: It serves as an outline for our ideas

- Function is the implementation of some algorithm