1's and 0's

I was helping my mom with some of her studying for a computer class she is taking, and one of the things she was required to understand was another language of sorts called Binary Coding (not necessarily capitalized haha but it adds emphasis).  This is the coding that consists of solely 1's and 0's that you see in computers and other similar types of technology in movies.  You see a character enter a code constituting some sort of command or a password in a computer and a whole slew of seemingly random 1's and 0's run through the screen.  These numbers are actually convertible into words, symbols, other numbers, and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff.

My mom had me look through her notes to see if I knew any of the stuff she was studying so perhaps I could help her out, but since this is a 300's class, I knew very little though I recognized a bunch of the terminology and whatnot from experiences I've had with various computers and software.  The one thing that caught my eye in her notes was this concept of binary coding.  I had heard of the language of the computers before, but I had never understood how to convert from normal language to the code or vice versa.

I proceeded to do some research online, and I quickly learned how to use this code, albeit with an aide which I found on the following site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII 

The whole conversion process involves nothing but multiplying and dividing by 2 and keeping track of remainders.  Which is pretty simple to pretty much anyone in or past the 4th grade.  I tried to explain this process to my mom, but she didn't take to the idea as quickly as I though she would... Like me she thinks far too much into things and makes it waaaaaay more complicated than it should be, haha.  My friend sitting there and listening in got it right away though, so maybe I'm not all that bad of a teacher :)

It was definitely cool to learn :)

Awesome = 100 0001 111 0111 110 0101 111 0011 110 1111 110 1101 110 0101