RaspberryPiFoundation: Teach teens computing: Data representation

Over the next three weeks, you will:

• Describe how computers represent things in binary
• Explain common text encoding (ASCII and UTF-8)
• Investigate the physics of sound, and how sampling allows computers to represent sounds
• Compare lossy and lossless compression
• Evaluate whether to use a bitmap or a vector image

This course will cover:

• Units of information
• Character encoding
• Representing images
• Representing sound
• Data compression

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for GCSE-Level to A-Level educators and learners. This course has a focus on supporting educators looking for an engaging way of teaching GCSE Computer Science concepts.

What software will I need?

To complete optional coding challenges in this course, you will need to download a Python IDE (Integrated Developer Environment) such as Mu.