Digital Data
Duration: 1 Week
Summary:
The lectures cover the basics of how binary and hexadecimal represent data in digital devices.
They also show the use of WinHex, the hex editor tool that is used in the Digital Data Practicum assessment.
The readings provide some more depth.
Learning Objectives
The objective of this module is to introduce basic concepts of data and how it can be stored and examined. After doing the material in this module, you should be able to :
- Explain the digital representation of text, numbers, images and other data types
- Convert among numeric systems (binary, decimal, and hexadecimal)
- Identify file headers in prominent file types
- Explain compression and its effect on file sizes and the quality of the content of the file
- Use a hex editor , such as WinHex, to examine the bytes of a file
Course Material
Conceptual Questions
Practicum