ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Representing text
Students learn how characters are stored as number codes using character sets such as ASCII and Unicode, and how to encode and decode words in binary.
One content description (AC9TDI8K03, AC9TDI8K04) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Representing Text, Images and Sound journey. All 10 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (10)
1
Representing text with number codes
2
Character set
3
Looking up characters in the ASCII table
4
ASCII codes for digits, spaces and punctuation
5
Converting a word to ASCII decimal codes
6
ASCII and its bits per character
7
Encoding a word as 8-bit ASCII binary
8
Decoding ASCII binary back into text
9
Unicode and emoji
10
Comparing ASCII and Unicode
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