Task 4

For this task you are going to be looking at how data is represented in a computer. Computers really boil down to just being a huge number of switches, so can only deal with two states on and off, 1 and 0. This task starts to look in to how it's possible for computers to do all the amazing things they can do from just that starting position of 1s and 0s.

Part 1 - Login

Please log back in to the Isaac Computer Science website with the login you created in the last task.

Part 2 - Theory

Work your way through the theory material on this page below:

https://isaaccomputerscience.org/topics/gcse_data_representation

That is from "Why data is represented in computer systems in binary" to "Data compression"

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Part 3 - Questions

Please complete the assignment (questions) that have been set on the Isaac Computer Science website under your login - GCSE Data representation (OCR).