resources

books

• Codes : An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography by Norman Biggs (textbook)
  • in college bookstore
  • Springer (pdf $35 ; paperback $50)
  • amazon ($50 new ; $30 used)
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon ( amazon | local copy)
• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay ( local copy )
  • pdf is free for download; print version for sale
  • info theory software
• Cover & Thomas Elements of Information Theory - popular grad textbook, dense and challenging

articles

• wikipedia: information theory
• 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

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