Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything.

Want to write like a computer? Get started with binary code, the language the way computerized devices send, receive, and store information.

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero ...

It was not the first binary code, of course, but it was the first to be properly considered digital, and its essence still exits in our computers, tablets and mobiles today." ...

Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will ...

You can convert letters into binary by using two colors of beads to represent the 'ons' and 'offs.' Use the key below to create your name in binary code and even turn it into a bracelet you can wear.

Scientists have made a quantum computer that breaks free from the binary system. Computers as we know them today rely on binary information: they operate in ones and zeroes, storing more complex ...

Learn about digital data and how computers understand it, including binary, denary, hexadecimal numbers, units of data, character sets and logic gates.

Learn how digital devices store information with this KS2 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 3 and 4.