A book in coding theory.

Question

I want to study coding theory, but I don't know any text book about. Can anyone indicate to me some book? I'm in the last year of undergraduate mathematics course, so I would of a basic book, but that provides to me an experience in this field.

Answer 1

Books

Peruse them online and see if they agree with you, they are not in any particular order and I may have missed a couple.

• A First Course in Coding Theory by Raymond Hill
• Information and Coding Theory by Gareth A. Jones and J.Mary Jones
• Introduction to Coding and Information Theory by Steven Roman
• Introduction to Coding Theory by Ron Roth
• Introduction to Coding Theory by Juergen Bierbrauer
• Coding Theory: A First Course by San Ling and Chaoping Xing
• Introduction to Coding Theory by Van Lint, J. H.
• Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition by D.C. Hankerson, Gary Hoffman, D.A. Leonard and Charles C. Lindner

Note: there are also graduate level books in this area.

Open Courseware

• MIT OCW CT
• Check the OCW Consortium

Other Potential Sources

• Try your local college library and see if you find others that suit you and your needs
• Search for introductory course materials and notes online

Answer 2

Another nice resource which IIRC has a decent amount of coding theory is the excellent Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay. It's a published book but it is also available online at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/book.html