Transcript Basic Coding

Basic Coding
Using Code Academy to learn the framework of the internet
Why code?
What is “coding”?
Code is what makes every digital device work, from Facebook to your iOS and every
website in between code is used to make everything work. It’s the language we use to
tell computers what to do.
How does it work?
Computers work using transistors, simple on/off switches. Combinations of on/off
switches tell the computer to do certain tasks.
To communicate those tasks, computers rely on Binary Code, a combination of the
numbers 0 and 1. This represents a transistor being on or off. These transistors are
grouped in clusters of 8 and are called “bytes.” One byte of information may look like
this: 11010110. One byte contains 28 different combinations, or 256 unique function.
Think about how many GigaBytes (GB) are on your phone’s storage. That’s
1,000,000,000 bytes! That’s an insanely large number!
That’s super hard! How do we use it!
We use coding languages to communicate what’s going on!
JavaScript
SQL
Python
C++
HTML
What will we be doing?
We’ll use HTML to dip our toes into coding.
Grab a computer and head to CodeCademy.com and go through the “build your own
website” tutorial.