Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Day two: downloads

I will put some of our course content on this web page for practically every meeting. Everyone needs to be able to download and use files like this one.

[1] Click on the link above.

[2] When asked, Save the zip file into a new folder on your desktop.

[3] Navigate to the folder, unzip the zip file, explore its contents.

Files online, as well as on our own computers, cameras, cell phones, you name it, are typically compressed for faster transmission. Here is an animation of the granddaddy of compression algorithms, Huffman encoding. Don't you wish you had thought of it?

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