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Digital Media
Lecture 0: It’s all just bits!
Georgia Gwinnett College
School of Science and Technology
Dr. Jim Rowan
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In the book refer to sections:
– Lies will be told!
– Mac vs PC…
– Macs in a PC world…
– Introduction: Computers sneak up…
– It’s all just bits!
– Telling the Story; New Technology…
– The scroll, the book…
– Wikis are wonderful! Thank you…
– Important people who shaped…
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Lecture 0: It’s all just bits!
 Using HexFiend software to look at
the types of media used in this
class
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Main points
All computer files have binary
codes underlying them
 There is more than text in a file
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– There are control codes
– There are headers
• Headers contain information that is used
by the software that is opening the file
• Images have image size, for instance