Timeline for How important is learning Binary for first-year college students?
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 18:51 | answer | added | Victor Eijkhout | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2020 at 18:06 | answer | added | Jerry Kuntz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 0:22 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @richard: I can never decide which version of that joke is funnier: the one with 10 or the one with 11. | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 18:30 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | There are 10 types of people in the world: those that know binary, and those that don't. | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | The question is, “is it a pre-requisite to teaching another part of the syllabus” | |
| Jun 24, 2017 at 20:48 | comment | added | Kevin Krumwiede | @JörgWMittag In my experience, grade 6 in a private school is roughly equivalent to grade 12 in a public school. | |
| Jun 24, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | reirab | @JörgWMittag Oddly, very little emphasis is placed on this is math classes in American public schools in my experience. When I entered my first year of college as a Computer Science major, I was shocked by how many of even the best students had no idea what a number base was. After I transferred into public school during high school, each year I ended up teaching fellow students about number bases before mathematics competitions because they weren't taught in any of the classes. And, again, these were the students who were participating in mathematics contests, not just average students. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 22:04 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | What exactly is "learning Binary"? Knowing that computers work with a binary system, or being able to read and maybe calculate with binary numbers? | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 20:39 | answer | added | Jeffrey Bosboom | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | davidbak | If you don't teach them binary how are you going to teach them that 5 * 0.2 != 1.0? | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 17:20 | vote | accept | Alfred Thompson | ||
| Jun 23, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | Alfred Thompson | I teach high school so was thinking about that. But really the first CS course at any grade level is fairly similar in scope and sequence if you assume not previous knowledge. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 9:51 | comment | added | xDaizu | @LorenPechtel your comment made me realize I haven't manually built a binary bitmapped flag in years (actually, since my 2nd college year). Nowadays, most popular functions use constants that you can OR together, e.g. PHP's json_encode. We are so spoiled! | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 6:50 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | Wait, you mean they haven't been taught number representations in high school? I'm truly shocked. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 6:10 | answer | added | ItamarG3 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 4:26 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | If you don't understand binary you're going to have a hard time with bitmapped flags--and high level languages do have bitmapped flags. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 3:57 | answer | added | Wildcard | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 23:34 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 12 | |
| S Jun 22, 2017 at 23:29 | history | edited | Gypsy Spellweaver | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 22, 2017 at 23:29 | history | suggested | Ellen Spertus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2017 at 23:23 | comment | added | Sean Houlihane | There is a big difference between teaching it, mentioning it in passing or using it as an example when teaching hex. You could just as usefully teach hex as having a 4 bit mapping for each digit, and that would be closer to what designers use most of the time. | |
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| Jun 22, 2017 at 22:14 | answer | added | user6030 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 21:38 | answer | added | ncmathsadist | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 21:18 | answer | added | Ellen Spertus | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 20:29 | answer | added | Ben I.♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 20:13 | answer | added | deckeresq | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 19:42 | answer | added | AlG | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | Kaneki | Can you specify your audience? Is this 1st year high school or university? Is the course for Computer Science majors, or everyone? | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 19:22 | history | asked | Alfred Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |