it’s not too bad, if you use a cross between the comment on this page with the wristwatch hyperlink and www.freewebs.com/binary101/
you can learn both numbers and letters with it, once you get the hang of it. here’s the alphabet in binary;
a 00001
b 00010
c 00011
d 00100
e 00101
f 00110
g 00111
h 01000
i 01001
j 01010
k 01011
l 01100
m 01101
n 01110
o 01111
p 10000
q 10001
r 10010
s 10011
t 10100
u 10101
v 10110
w 10111
x 11000
y 11001
z 11010
if you’re still having trouble with the alphabet, think of the binary as counting upwards through every number that is only ones and zeros.
and with numbers, you break it down into a sequence of numbers;
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
You keep doubling depending on how large the original number is.
say you had to translate the number 149 into binary, here’s how;
149
1 128 149 – 128 = 21
0 64
0 32
1 16 21 – 16 = 5
0 8
1 4 5 – 4 = 1
0 2
1 1 1 – 1 = 0
put a 1 in the left-hand column if you use that part of the seqence that is in the row, and once you hit zero in the sum column, you’ll have your binary code in the left-hand column;
10010101
One last thing
whether you are writing a number or a letter in binary, you should use the right prefix.
when writing numbers, put 0011 in front of the number (each collective number, e.g. if you’re writing three hundred and twenty one use 0011[three hundred and twenty one] not 0011[three] 0011[two] 0011[one]
when writing capital letters, put 010 in front of every letter
when writing lowercase letters, put 011 in front of every letter
Now, i’ve given you much more than a head-start. it should give you a pretty good base for learning binary