Compression Code Puzzles

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Age: 7-13 yrs
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Cost: Free
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Difficulty: Easy
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Lessons: Activity
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Duration: 1 hr
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Platforms: Offline
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Data on computers is stored as long sequences of characters – ultimately as binary 1s and 0s. The idea with compression is that we use an algorithm to change the way the information is represented so that fewer characters are needed to store exactly the same information.

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CAS London is a jointly run collaboration of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University London (QMUL) and the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King’s College London (KCL). QMUL offers a range of degrees in computer science and KCL trains future teachers of computer science on the PGCE in Computer Science.

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