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Title: Color By Numbers
Authors: Bell, Tim
Fellows, Mike
Witten, Ian
Keywords: binary numbers
no computer required
computer storage
numbers representing pictures
numbers representing text
Issue Date: 1998
Publisher: csunplugged.org
Series/Report no.: ACM Model Curr
Abstract: The computer stores drawings, photographs, text, and other pictures using only numbers. This activity demonstrates how that is done. No computers are required; students use two worksheet activities, called “Kid fax” and “Make your own picture” from the website. Grade 2 or older. Prior knowledge: Grade 2 geometry (exploring shapes), counting, graphing. This is activity 2 from the free book on the website.
Description: Most recently published in A Model Curriculum for K–12 Computer Science: Final Report of the ACM K–12 Task Force Curriculum Committee. (Tucker et al., October 2003.) Used by permission.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2378/257
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