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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver

by David Riley, Kenny A. Hunt
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
405 pages
12h 16m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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to represent the letter Q are each dierent, they nonetheless each represent
the same thing: the letter Q.
Textual characters are usually encoded as integer values using the encod-
ing schemes discussed earlier in this chapter. Each number is arbitrarily asso-
ciated with the image that should be used when the character is drawn on a
page or shown on the computer screen. e associations between numbers
and text are known collectively as a character encoding scheme. e most
common character encoding scheme is the ASCII table, shown in Figure2.17,
which denes associations between n ...
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