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.
I recently finished my first year at the University of Glasgow where I did Computer Science, Maths and Physics. I enjoyed it immensely and I cannot wait to go back in just over 3 weeks time (although I’ve still not decided exactly what courses I’ll be taking) when I’ll be doing Computer Science, Electric Engineering, C Programming under Linux and Exploring the Cosmos 1X.
This is an account of my thoughts about 1st year and will hopefully prove useful to anyone starting university soon.
I’ve been mulling over the idea of a blog covering Computer Science, the University of Glasgow and anything else I happen to find interesting for a while now.
As you can see, I decided to go ahead with it.
I’ll be posting about Project Euler when I find time and hope to write about my first year at the University of Glasgow (hint: I loved it) sometime soon.
I hope to be able to showcase some of my web design work here too. I’m always looking to earn a bit of extra money doing web design or programming work so if you think you have something to offer then please get in touch.
