Let’s start off by saying, today was very simple. Just like in any college courses you will have your difficult courses that you struggle with or really feel like you learned a lot. As well as some classes that you swear you’ve already learned every bit of what’s being discussed. Even though this was a review for me, I still took down some notes for everyone to read over, including a couple of simple exercises and examples for you to practice with if need be!

So In our introduction to binary we went over why it is that computers use binary. Then we briefly discussed why humans start counting at 1 instead of 0, I was surprised to find out that there are quite a few historical reasons for this, a couple of reasons being: In some religions, 0 was described to be “The Devil”! Another reason being simply that people like to correlate 0 with nothing, thus deeming it an unneeded value.

Once we got to the exercises, things got a bit more interesting. We started out by learning how to count in binary. After we had finished learning how to count in binary it was time to take a look at converting binary to decimal. If you’re like me and enjoyed the 30 minute-simple math work sheets back in Elementary-School where you would complete as many problems as you could as fast as possible. Then you’ll surely enjoy learning how to convert binary into decimal.

The second exercise was converting decimal to binary. Converting decimal to binary is still fairly simple, and if you enjoy math as much as I do… It may deem no challenge. But to those of you who are still newer to binary, and to those of you who just need a quick review on how to convert binary to decimal, and vice versa. I strongly encourage you to take a look through my notes as a review or as a quick brush-up lesson.

Thank you everyone for reading tonight’s blog post! If you’ve enjoyed reading my posts so far, what do you like about them? If you don’t enjoy them, tell me why! Feedback is greatly appreciated, whether positive or constructively critical!

Cool fact: If you take a look at your computers power button, it should look like a 0 with a 1 in it! Like in binary the 1 stands for on and the 0 stands for off! How fun!

Organized notes with conversion exercise: notes day 5