INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI
Year 9 Curriculum
Computing
Unit 2: Data representation
Learning Objective 2.1
To understand the binary number system and its purpose; to be able to convert binary numbers into denary & vice versa.
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Learning Objective 2.2
To understand the hexadecimal number system and its purposes; to be able to convert hexadecimal numbers into binary or denary and vice versa.
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Learning Objective 2.3
To understand the purpose of the ASCII character set and how it uses binary numbers to represent characters.
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Learning Objective 2.4
To understand what a register is and what they can be used for; to demonstrate an ability to understand what action a register will cause or to create a register that will complete a desired action.
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Learning Objective 2.5
To understand what a bitmap image is and how it is structured, how colours are represented in binary and how images can be compressed with lossy & lossless compression.
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Learning Objective 2.6
To understand how sound can be represented in binary and how compression can be applied to sound.
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Learning Objective 2.7
To understand how text files can be compressed.
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