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Data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones. Learners explore how to represent numbers using just these two symbols, through a binary system of cards.

In this activity about encryption, learners cut out a secret decoder badge from a handout and use it to encode messages to each other.

When a lot of people share one network (such as cars using roads, or messages getting through the Internet), there is the possibility that competing processes will create a “deadlock," or an interrupt

Even fast computers are limited to how quickly they can solve problems. One way to speed things up is to use several computers at once.