How do you convert letters of the alphabet to binary code?

Answer 1

Every character is assigned a unique code, to translate a string representation of a letter in the alphabet, you merely have to look up the code for that particular character, then convert that decimal representation to binary.

For example:
'a' - 97

97 in binary is : 1100001


64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 1

64 + 32 + 1 = 97

Answer 2

Binary Letter Converter

Answer 3

You have to create an algorithm to convert the number into a binary number. I always use an array of bools to represent a binary number. The following function will cout the binary equivalent of an 8-bit binary number: void showBinary(int num) { bool bin[8]; for(int i=0; i<8; i++) { bin[7 - i] = num%2? true : false; num /= 2; } for(int i=0; i<8; i++) { cout << bin[i]? "1" : "0"; } }

Answer 4

An explanation of binary: http://www.mindspring.com/~jimvb/binary.htm

And a converter:
http://students.washington.edu/cwei/tools/binary.shtml