Skip to Main Content
Tiny C Projects
book

Tiny C Projects

by Dan Gookin
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Tiny C Projects

5 Encoding and decoding

It’s easy to confuse the topic of encoding and decoding with encryption. These are similar procedures, but the purpose of encryption is to conceal and safeguard information. Encoding is done for transportation of information that may be too complex for the medium or to translate between different systems or for other innocuous purposes. Regardless, the process of encoding and decoding has the potential to be action packed and full of intrigue.

Well, perhaps not.

Still, back in the early days of computer telecommunications, encoding and decoding were regular occurrences. I remember transferring my first program over a modem: 16 kilobytes that took 16 minutes to transfer. That program consisted of binary data, but it was ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Five Lines of Code

Five Lines of Code

Christian Clausen
Modern C

Modern C

Jens Gustedt
Effective C

Effective C

Robert C. Seacord
Extreme C

Extreme C

Kamran Amini

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633439825Supplemental ContentPublisher SupportOtherPublisher WebsiteSupplemental ContentPurchase Link