uccser / cs-field-guide

A free online interactive resource/textbook for high school students learning about computer science.
https://www.csfieldguide.org.nz
MIT License
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Tim needs to check over Run Length Encoding section of compression #156

Closed hai-dee closed 8 years ago

hai-dee commented 8 years ago

@timbellnz I have refactored it considerably. The goals were

Thoughts? Happy with it? Feel free to make further changes! I think a couple of images, e.g. one of a fax machine would be a nice addition too.

Relevant commit: https://github.com/uccser/cs-field-guide/commit/e29a4daddc3a7ec19d0cfbe83d9829ae3f01dacb

timbellnz commented 8 years ago

Added explanation of how it fits in to history/teaching; fine tuning of wording; extra information on how lossless methods can expand a file.

Looks good to me.

commit a29c90e097440d697ca08c4ada38610b642ca2e6