Before we can go on and explore the building blocks in more detail, we need to learn a little bit about the fundamental underlying language used in computers: the binary number system. Based on my kids’ school, this appears to be a 6th grade math topic that’s apparently taught without any context. I am hoping I can do better here. The numbers that we use day-in day-out are based on the decimal system. In the decimal system we use ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. It is *not* a coin...