A book in coding theory. 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.
 A: 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. 


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*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


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*MIT OCW CT

*Check the OCW Consortium
Other Potential Sources


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*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

A: 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
