Spring 2001
Exam 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13 |
Assignment 11
Due: Monday, March 12
Reading
Review Chapters 1 - 6
and Appendix D of Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, Internet & World Wide
Web: How to Program. Review Chapters 1 - 5 of Freiberger & Swaine,
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer.
Writing (Hand In on Monday)
1. A "nibble" is a string of four bits. It is "half a byte." How many different states can a nibble detect?
2. Convert binary 110101 to decimal.
3. Convert decimal 2001 to binary.
4. Convert decimal 177 to binary.
5. Convert binary 101010101011 to decimal.
6. What is the sum (in binary) of the binary numbers 10 and 10? What familiar result is the usual way of recording this computation?
7. Find the ASCII representation of CX 103 and explain why you need six numbers to do this representation.
8. Write your first name in upper case letters. Translate the result into ASCII values. How many bytes does it take to write your name? How many bits?
9. What common word has ASCII representation "67 65 84"
10. 01001101 01001001 01000100 01000100 is the binary representation of some text. Translate into English.
Longer Term Creative Project
Put together all the HTML features we have studied to produce your personal home page for your web site. Complete this project by Friday, March 23.