Next week starts my coding theory course and I am really looking forward to it.
Can anybody suggest to me good coding theory books? I've already taken a cryptography class last semester and I studied it with Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes; I found it very useful. Is there a coding theory book like this with many examples?
Thank you in advance!
On
Macwilliams and Sloane's The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes is excellent though its about 40 years old at this point, but everyone who is serious about coding theory needs to own this book.
A book I quite like that's more recent is R.M. Roth's Introduction to Coding Theory -- has a bit of a CS flavor to the approach. For engineering (esp. applications), I think Error correction coding by Moon is good.
For LDPC codes and the like, Richardson's Modern coding theory or Mackay's information theory book are good points to start from.
On
I took a course last spring that was an introduction to Coding Theory and this was the textbook:
"A First Course in Coding Theory" By: Raymond Hill
It was a nice taste of single-error correcting codes and provided a strong foundation from which to build on. In addition, if you are looking for a book with many examples, this textbook has exercises at the end of every chapter and has answers to EVERY exercise in the back of the book.
Because it's been a while since the last comment, it's worth suggesting the pretty recently updated book Essential Coding Theory by Guruswami, Rudra, and Sudan.
I think it has a reasonable amount of information for a beginner, and is written in an approachable way.