The Binary, or base-2 number system, is represented by the symbols 1 and 0. It’s used in most digital electronic circuits and all desktop computers in the world. Because of this, a basic understanding of binary is extremely important to a computer scientist.
Everyone’s familiar with Decimal. It’s the number system we all use every day – and for good reason – we have 10 fingers and 10 toes. For a humans it just makes sense.
It’s been a while since my last post, 5 months actually, and my only excuse is that I’ve been busy. University is in full swing again and second year has proven even more demanding than first. It took up most of my time but now that first semester is over I have 2 less courses to worry about and a few hours more free time every week.
Most of my new-found free time will be spent working on coursework, not all of it though. I’m hoping to write about data structures, algorithms, databases and a few other things – I’ll be sticking very closely to the Computer Science course at Glasgow – hopefully they’ll be a good revision aid for me and an educational experience for you.
I’ve redesigned the website too, it’s quite minimalist, image free and hopefully an improvement over the old one. I changed it, again.
