Binary/Hexadecimal conversions and other fun!

This week was a fun week of classes and gym time; even with my left foot being injured and not being able to run I was asked to join the track and field team to throw shot put and javelin, thank you upper body strength. I'm back to hammer curling 70+ pounds so I'm happy, it is a good semester. 

But the real fun comes in my computer classes, that's actually why I'm in college, not to use the weight room; I'm not only a meat head, I'm a code monkey too!

We have been learning about binary.

Binary is a series of 1s and 0s, each bit represents an electrical on and off, eight bits combine to make a byte; all of this data is used to communicate ideas in the form of code. Binary strings can go on for what seems like forever, so to simplify things for coders (and tech support when a computer blue screens) hexadecimal is used to simplify long strings of binary into smaller chunks of code. The translation is not too bad to learn, it's not like it's the davinci code or anything!

Okay, that chart might look a little overwhelming, but it's not bad. I promise the conversion is not bad.

See? That code rubric is a little easier to wrap your mind around. It's actually pretty fun! This is the groundwork for all code and how computers really work!