ASCII and Unicode Teaching Resource for Computer Science GCSE and A Level

This resource provides thorough coverage of the ASCII and Unicode Character Sets needed for Computer Science GCSE and A Level. There are practice activities, an ASCII conversion table and Python code examples.

Specification references

Knowledge of ASCII and Unicode character sets is required for the following Computer Science GCSE and A Level specification references.

AQA Computer Science GCSE 8525

• 3.3.5 Character encoding

OCR Computer Sciene GCSE J277

• 1.2.4 Data storage

Eduqas Computer Science GCSE

• 4 Data representation and storage

AQA Computer Science A Level

• 3.5.5.2 ASCII and Unicode

OCR Computer Science A Level

1.4.1 Data Types

Cambridge AS/A2 Cambridge International AS Computer Science 9608

• 1.1.1 Number representation
• 2.2.1 Data types

Topics covered by this resource

• ASCII and Unicode character sets are and how they work
• Converting between ASCII and English (Latin) characters in both directions using denary, hexadecimal and binary
• Using Python to print ASCII art
• Using Python to convert characters between English and ASCII in denary
• Using Python to print Unicode characters from their codes

Contents of this resource

• In-depth presentation on ASCII and Unicode Character Sets in .pptx format
• PDF version of the presentation
• Exercises for students
• Python code for all examples in the presentation