diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 26eb3c5f19..b01a043964 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -344,6 +344,25 @@ add_custom_target(mnist
                   COMMENT "Executing ${src_executable_mnistsp}"
                   VERBATIM)
 
+
+#########################################################
+## ASCII Example
+#
+set(src_executable_ascii ascii)
+add_executable(${src_executable_ascii} "examples/ascii.cpp")
+target_link_libraries(${src_executable_ascii} ${core_library})
+target_compile_options(${src_executable_ascii} PUBLIC ${INTERNAL_CXX_FLAGS})
+target_compile_definitions(${src_executable_ascii} PRIVATE ${COMMON_COMPILER_DEFINITIONS})
+target_include_directories(${src_executable_ascii} PRIVATE 
+        ${CORE_LIB_INCLUDES} 
+        ${EXTERNAL_INCLUDES}
+        )
+# add_custom_target(ascii
+#                   COMMAND ${src_executable_ascii}
+#                   DEPENDS ${src_executable_ascii}
+#                   COMMENT "Executing ${src_executable_ascii}"
+#                   VERBATIM)
+
 ##################################################
 #
 # Install targets into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
@@ -384,6 +403,12 @@ install(TARGETS
         LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
         ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib)
 
+install(TARGETS
+        ${src_executable_ascii}
+        RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
+        LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
+        ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib)
+
           
 #
 # `make package` results in
diff --git a/src/examples/ascii.cpp b/src/examples/ascii.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..355f2fdb90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/examples/ascii.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+#include <string>
+#include <fstream>
+#include <streambuf>
+#include <iostream>
+
+using namespace std;
+
+
+int main() {
+  cout << "ASCII" << endl;
+
+  auto dataFilename = "./ascii.cpp";
+  ifstream dataFile( dataFilename );
+  string str((istreambuf_iterator<char>(dataFile)), istreambuf_iterator<char>());
+
+  // Make model
+
+  // Run model
+
+  // Measure online stability
+
+  // Measure inter/intra catagory overlap
+
+  // Measure whole word classification accuracy
+}