Binary to ASCII

Due Date

Monday, December 3, 2007

Objective

• To be able to decode a sequence of binary digits representing a text message encoded in ASCII.

Overview

Th American Standard Code of Information Interchange (ASCII) has been the standard encoding scheme used for text on personal computers. While it is gradually being replaced by the more international Unicode, understanding how ASCII works still provides us with a good example of data storage in binary.

Proceedure

1. Look up ASCII code on Wikipedia.
2. The following contains a text message encoded as a binary representation of the ASCII characters:

     0100 0011 0110 1111 0110 1110 0110 0111 0111 0010 0110 0001 0111 0100 0111 0101
     0110 1100 0110 0001 0111 0100 0110 1001 0110 1111 0110 1110 0111 0011 0010 0001
     0010 0000 0100 1001 0110 0110 0010 0000 0111 1001 0110 1111 0111 0101 0010 0000
     0110 0011 0110 0001 0110 1110 0010 0000 0111 0010 0110 0101 0110 0001 0110 0100
     0010 0000 0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 1001 0111 0011 0010 1100 0010 0000 0111 1001
     0110 1111 0111 0101 0010 0000 0110 0001 0111 0010 0110 0101 0010 0000 0110 0100
     0110 0101 0110 0110 0110 1001 0110 1110 0110 1001 0111 0100 0110 0101 0110 1100
     0111 1001 0010 0000 0110 0001 0010 0000 0110 0111 0110 0101 0110 0101 0110 1011
     0010 0000 0011 1011 0010 1101 0010 1001
     

   Use the information from Wikipedia to decode the message.
3. Post your results on a web page entitled Binary to ASCII Text. Describe the process you used to decode the message.