Crazy Simple Computer Science Series/3🚀 Machine Languages: ASCII and UNICODE

Yagmur Sahin
DataBulls
Published in
5 min readOct 3, 2021

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Welcome to the Crazy Simple Computer Science Series!

*This series introduces readers to the basics of computer science in a way that anyone can understand. This series, which aims to make computer science and working principles fun, is aimed to give the basic logic of computer science and helpful information that you can use in daily life in an understandable language.

In the previous articles of the Crazy Simple Computer Sciences series, we talked very simply about how computers work, what the Matrix is, the worlds consisting of 0 and 1, and the name of this system (binary notation, and the tools that enable computers to communicate in this way (transistors, machine language).

This article will talk about some of the standards we use to convert machine language into understandable numbers and symbols.

This article is directly linked to previous articles in the series. Therefore, first of all;

I recommend you to read the first 2 articles of the series first if you are interested.

Crazy Simple Computer Sciences 1/ How Do Computers Work? Understanding the Matrix World

Crazy Simple Computer Sciences 2/Understanding the Matrix World/Machine Language

The American System Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. In computers, telecommunications…

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Yagmur Sahin
DataBulls

London 📍 Lawyer | Privacy & Data Protection Professional | Philosophy-Psychology-Tech Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/data-privacy-yagmursahin/