Huffman Coding
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What is Huffman Coding?
Huffman coding is a lossless data compression algorithm. The idea is to assign variable-length codes to input characters, lengths of the assigned codes are based on the frequencies of corresponding characters. The most frequent character gets the smallest code and the least frequent character gets the largest code.
Free resources to learn Huffman Coding
- ArticleHuffman Coding
- VideoHuffman Coding - Greedy Method
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Huffman Coding: common questions
Can I learn Huffman Coding in Hindi?
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Is this Huffman Coding tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 68 of 188 in the free Computer Science roadmap, in stage 5, Endianess. If you are new to Computer Science, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.