🎨 What is ASCII Art?
Creativity & Media
ASCII Art is a way of making pictures using only letters, numbers, and symbols from the keyboard. 🧑💻
Before we had colorful images everywhere online, people got creative with just text!
🔡 Simple examples
Here are some basic examples of ASCII art:
:-) → A smiling face
^_^ → A happy cat face
(=^･^=) → A little cat
🤔 Fun fact: ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange — a system that gives a number to each letter and symbol.
📜 Why use ASCII Art?
- 🌍 It could be shared easily over emails and early internet!
- ⌨️ You only need a keyboard to create it.
- 🎨 It’s a fun way to be artistic with simple tools.
💡 How to create your own?
You can start by combining simple characters like -, |, ^, _, and = to make shapes.
Example of a little house:
/\
/ \
/____\
| |
|____|
✨ Tip: Try to create something using only the symbols on your keyboard!
🧠 What should you remember?
- 🔡 ASCII Art uses only letters, numbers, and keyboard symbols.
- 💻 It started because there were no colorful images online yet!
- 🎨 You can create fun drawings with just simple text.
- 🏡 Anyone can try making tiny pictures using a keyboard!
🎯 Quiz
To complete this lesson, you must get at least 80% correct. Good luck!