Binary in C#: Binary Basics in 10 minutes or less.

[@knowledgeispower5393]

Keep it up Tim, been waiting for this soooo long! Lots of Love from Edmonton Alberta

[@IAmTimCorey]

More is coming soon.

[@knssoftware6018]

I think you mean this is 'Lesson number 10'

[@inz_uzi]

😂

[@IAmTimCorey]

I'd rather not confuse people before I teach them. 😂

[@xavierbatlle1828]

Got it! Ready for next one.😊

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!!

[@marvinjno-baptiste726]

You said Hex means 16, when it means 6. Hexadecimal meaning 16 (via 6 and 10)

[@IAmTimCorey]

Yes, I was using the shortened name for it, but you are correct.

[@Xenxabar]

From an educational point of view, how well does this approach work as compared to using the exponential approach?

[@holger_p]

This is not either-or. Of course you also represent floating point values in binary, but this is the basics, starting with integers.

[@KevinRiggs]

Good series to tackle

[@IAmTimCorey]

Thanks!

[@johnnyblue4799]

I find it a bit weird starting from 1, not from 0. In decimal we have [0,9] and in binary 0 and 1. Why not start from 0?

[@_M_a_r_t_i_n_M]

There was a time in our history which was actually not all that long ago in the grand scheme of written history where people in general had no concept of negative numbers. It took a math genius who was willing to take on a challenge to solve the cubit equation and he realized the only way to solve it was to create a 'less than nothing' number. Hence the invention of negative numbers. That was when people still used Roman numerals to perform mathematics and Arabic symbols had not yet been widely adopted as a standard for math even in Europe much less the world. But yes, it is very difficult to do math in your mind that is _not_ base 10 when that is all you knew growing up in school in math class. I guess it's a good thing that we have computers to do the conversions for us these days. I have a difficult time comprehending the minds who first converted Binary into Hex and Hexadecimal -> Assembly language making actual utilitarian languages such as C possible.

[@IAmTimCorey]

I talked about that in the video. Zero is the same in all numbering formats, which is why I started from one.

[@johnnyblue4799]

@@IAmTimCorey I understand, but it still feels weird to me. Can't help it! :))

[@smsbear]

I always like dealing with 0s and 1s 😊

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!

[@smsbear]

Ages old but extremely powerful

[@IAmTimCorey]

I'm not sure that the age of it really matters. It is still the foundation of how all hardware and software works.

[@princefowzan]

This is actually what they teach in schools in the name of Coding 😂 😂

[@IAmTimCorey]

While this isn't the end, I do think that it is important that developers understand this if they are to fully grasp how software development works. These are foundational principles on which all software and hardware operate.

[@holger_p]

This is how they started any computer course in the 80ies, just for people touching the computer for the first time, not just programmers. They rather scared them with that. Maybe it was coming from the time of punch-tape and punch-cards, to focus on that so much. That's where you could really see the bits visually.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Yeah, I definitely don't think it should be where you start when learning software development today, it is something that I think you should learn at some point.

[@princefowzan]

@@IAmTimCorey makes sense

[@simon-white]

Binary basics in 1010 minutes or less.

[@IAmTimCorey]

😀

[@holger_p]

Be careful to not ring the wrong bell, when talking about decimal. It's not about the decimal data type. (Maybe binary representation of values is something for lesson .. #37)

[@IAmTimCorey]

Yep, I mention that a couple of times in the series.