Ok, i just want to premise this with the fact that it is not a school project, it is for a gift thing I am doing for this Christmas season. My plan is to make scarves using two colors, each row being a different color representing a 1 or 0. I want to write a program that will take in a string (or whatever would be appropriate) of 1s and 0s, and then return a text string. I know there is a long drawn out way where I can do it with just a case for each letter and character, but I was wondering if there was a more simple way of doing it.

Similarly, I would like to be able to write a program that takes in a string of text, and converts it to binary.

These are all going to be simple console apps. Nothing to fancy. If anyone has an idea of where to start, that'd be great. Thanks in advance.