resources

textbook

• Codes : An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography by Norman Biggs
  • in college bookstore
  • Springer (pdf $40 ; paperback $50)
  • amazon ($39 new ; $20 used)

articles

• wikipedia: information theory
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon
• Jim's entropy notes
• Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
• Handy alternative description of Discrete Cosine Transform (pdf)
• http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2013/12/finite-state-entropy-new-breed-of.html - brand new!
• my DCT ipython notebook

other books

• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay
  • pdf is free for download; print version for sale
  • info theory software
• Cover & Thomas Elements of Information Theory - popular grad textbook, dense and challenging

hamming codes

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming(7,4)
• http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHamming74Code/

other

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plgiarism
• creative commons