In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme used to encode files and images by translating them into a radix-64 representation and presenting binary data in an ASCII string format. It is mainly used ...

If you have young kids, you'll relate to the value of being able to speak in code. For a few years, I was able to use Pig Latin to speak covertly around my kids. It was handy, and surprisingly ...