Chapter 2.8, Problem 2.11CP

Program Plan Intro

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII):

• ASCII stands for “American Standard code for Information Interchange”
• ASCII is a standard “character encoding” scheme, where characters are represented in the form of numeric codes.
  • The numeric code for lower and upper case alphabets, punctuations, numbers and special characters are represented using ASCII codes.
  • ASCII code value begins with “000” and ends with “127”.
  • Seven bits are used to signify the character using ASCII.
  • Additional “128 larger character sets are signified using eight bits in ASCII.

Storage and representation of character:

• Any characters that are stored in the memory are read in the form of ASCII codes (numeric codes).
• The characters that are represented by the user are being read by the computer using the corresponding numeric codes of the given character.