DH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plain Text, Wordperfect
6 Oct 2016
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Download and installation budget your time! (takes like an hour or something) *change to syllabus: *tex files still coming, we"ll do test runs in the next lab. At the very lowest level, computers operate in (on and off) One level up from there, we can interpret that same info as (after bits is numbers of different types between 1 and 0) Another abstraction necessary in early computers was (characters: after various encoding attempts, a standard emerged known as (ascii, which required how many bits (7 bits - but its more convenient to deal with 8) In programming, a sequence of these is known as (unicode: unicode is a super set. A sequence of characters = string (called this because you string them together) Difference between string and text = text is more general, string is talking about specifics. Text: when there is no limited context of that type: examples of text: stop signs, newspapers, textbooks.
