Online Classroom: How To Learn Binary Language In 15 Minutes

Most people think of binary code as something that seems pretty cool. But why is that? very few people actually know how to do it, and most have never actually bother to learn more about it. Perhaps people are interested but believe that learning binary is beyond their comprehension. One night not so long ago I was bored and decided to give it a shot. To my surprise, I was able to learn binary language in under 20 minutes. I may not be the fastest translator in the world, but how many people can say they even know how to do this in the first place, right? Here is how I learned.

To understand how translate binary into words, you first have to understand the math involved. You need to learn how to write a weighted table and how to translate/add up the 1’s and 0’s into a number. This is not as complicated as you might think. So put on your thinking caps, avoid a distraction and focus for the next 10:00 minutes and watch this instructional video:

Now that you know the math involved, here is how to turn those numbers into letters, words and sentences and decrypt messages.

Here are some some small key highlights at least I have found helpful/difficult to remember when I run into binary code….

• If the first three letters are 010 this means it is a capitol letter
• If the first three letters are 011 this means if is a lower case letter
• if the first three letters are 001 this means you are looking at a punctuation mark
• If the last 5 digits are 00000 this means you are looking at a space between words

You have successfully just learned how to translate, write and read binary language in 15 minutes.

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