Overview

Project Information
Unicode, Character Sets, and Data Types Research

Progress

• Tried to better understand character sets and data types
• Found random useful sites

Useful Links

• Tech News
  • https://danielmiessler.com/
  • https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
• Project Ideas
  • https://www.instructables.com/
  • https://www.thingiverse.com/
• Maker Spaces
  • https://project-manus.mit.edu/maker-lodge
  • https://project-manus.mit.edu/thedeep-metropolis
• Entrepreneurship / Innovation
  • https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/
  • https://orbit.mit.edu/
• Binary Encoding
  • Python Struct
  • Formatting Characters
  • Big Endian vs Little Endian (Byte addressable storage)
  • Anti-Aliasing = how to make diagonals look less boxy

Reflection

Took another random deep dive into understanding character encoding and binary data. I've been mocked a few times already this year for not understanding this stuff, so now's good motivation. I need to figure out how to do these things to decode a binary file for my research.

Here is a very sassy and savage article on character encoding:
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Some research notes:

Bytes, ASCII, Unicode, Big/Little Endian

UTF-8

Java Datatypes

Format Characters

Reading files in Python

Handling binary data

Ascii Table