Representing numeric data with bits

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Skills: counting with decimal and binary numbers
Concepts: using a binary code for representing numbers, positional number systems, number system base, number of symbols in a number system

Text editor versus word processor

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Skills: None
Concepts: Text editor versus word processor, (ASCII) text file

Counting (number systems)

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Skills: counting using any number system
Concepts: positional number systems, base (radix)

Encoding images

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Skills: none
Concepts: an image representation code, the number of bits in a code, the amount of information in an image

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RGB color

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Skills: selecting colors, specifying colors in HTML
Concepts: combining red, green and blue light to generate colors, combining light versus combining paint, RGB color coding system

Data quantity – how much data?

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Skills: none
Concepts: the quantity of data as measured in bits or bytes, prefixes for large numbers, abbreviation conventions

Data + code → information

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Skills: none
Concepts: data, information, code, code standardization, encoding text

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IP packets and addresses

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Companion topic module on Internet surveillance


Skills: none
Concepts: data and program files, IP packet, packet header, packet body, IP address, host name versus IP address

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Retrieving complex pages -- it's all bits

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Skills: none
Concepts: embedded object, data type (text, audio, video, image), embedded program, evolution of the Web, bit, byte