Okay, so last week our CSC104 class started to progress towards the complicated and challenging concept: how to manipulate binary numbers. Of course, when you learn something entirely new with no prior experience whatsoever, you will undoubtedly become confused. I thought I was experiencing schizophrenia or some sort of mental disorder that insisted me to question math even at its most elementary level. My initial thought process was just sheer agitation — how can manipulating the numbers 0 and 1 be so difficult?
So I thought to myself, "alright, if I can't decipher any of these numbers in class, maybe I should try Google-ing these things back home." And sure enough, I found a website whose capacity is so large that at times it is perceived to be boundless in terms of the materials that it encompasses — http://www.wikihow.com/ . Just type anything into its all-mighty search-box like you would with Google or Bing, and BOOM, the results will pop up.
I started with the adding binary numbers part first; after all, it is the simplest and most essential. Here's what I did/where I went: http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Binary-Numbers
As seen in the webpage, those various pictures depict a straightforward approach to the procedures that one must take to accomplish adding the numbers 0 and 1 (the example demonstrated is 0111 + 1110 = 10101, just to make sure that you're on the right page).
So there you have it, my very first summary of "doing things that most kids in grade four might be able to". Honestly, I really did not understand this at the beginning. Nevertheless, it is through curiosity that we are compelled to explore or probe anything. Yeah, words of advice I guess, but I really hope this post becomes helpful to one of my (few) viewers.
With that said, I'm out!
Ah, binary addition.
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