What is ASCII and why learn it as a developer?

ASCII maps numbers to characters — 72 is 'H'. Learn it to crush encoding bugs and grok case sensitivity at the bit level.

How does binary represent strings like "Hello"?

Each char becomes 8 bits via ASCII: H=01001000, e=01100101, etc. Join 'em for the full byte sequence.

Damn right — bitwise flags, permissions, overflows explain. No more magic.

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