Representing characters

12 questions

1. What does the word representation mean in computing?
2. What do we call something that stands for something else, like an emoji or a road sign?
3. Put these actions in order for representing a picture on a computer:
4. Which of these is a reason to use different representations for different situations?
5. Match each keyword to its meaning:
6. What is the name for the system of 0s and 1s that computers use to represent all types of information?
7. Match each example to the correct keyword:
8. What is the main purpose of a character coding scheme like ASCII?
9. In computing, how is every piece of information ultimately represented?
10. Put these steps in order for encoding and decoding a message:
11. When measuring the length of a representation, what should you include?
12. If the word "Hello" is written in Morse code as ".... . .-.. .-.. ---", what is the representation length of this code?

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