2.1.10 Outline the way in which data is represented in the computer


String: Used to describe a sentence (I love Java)
Integers: Numbers Only
Characters: a, 2, %
Colours: Hex

ASCIIASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined.

UNICODE: an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs. Each character is represented in 2 bits and the whole is represented in 16 Bits.