Hi folks,
For my particular group of students (so far) having a physical paper to refer to – and turn in – has been helping them to stay focused on the activity, so I made a quick 1.7 Activity Guide and wanted to share in case it’s useful for anyone else.
Please give me a heads up if something is wrong/could be worded better/should be added, I’m always looking to improve these things!
Thanks. As a new teacher, helpful hints and tools like this are much appreciated.
Thank you, this guide was very useful
Thanks this is very helpful.
Can you tell me how to code the challenge of
Whoa, this message sure has a lot of FORMATTING in it!
Are we talking ASCII or self-developed code? In either case, each letter/symbol has an assigned value that can be written in decimal or binary. Personally, I give a printout of the basic ASCII table at the end of the lesson (I prefer a version with just decimal/character, since I’ve found kids are more likely to forget which column to look at when it also has hex, oct, ect).
Thank you for responding. I see this as a challenge in that lesson–and I’m wondering how to send it in the Internet Simulator on Unit 1 Lesson 7 with the formatting (bold, colors, etc.)
Maybe I’m making this harder than it should be. I have the ASCII table and I understand that.
So are the students supposed to create their own code for the formatting? and is that possible?
Yes, their own formatting code using the first 32 digits, if I remember correctly—something like 10 toggles on/off italics, etc.
A more general way to think about it would be asking how can you communicate to the recipient what words/letters should be bold? Italics? etc.
For example, if I wanted to send: These are strong words
… maybe I’ll send this: These are [MAKE THESE WORDS BOLD =>]strong words[<= MAKE THESE WORDS BOLD]
That might work. Are there other ways? Other ways that might be more efficient and/or clear?