Author: Pamela Cosman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781279762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A thoughtful and provocative fiction story about the science of secret codes and error correction. Sara, Derek and Jared have devised their own simple code to communicate with each other in class at school. When a written, coded message is amended en route to Sara and she gets into trouble, they start to explore how their simple code could use error correction to protect themselves against tampering by somebody.This is all a private hobby, until one day, on a school trip to a bank the class is caught up in an attempted bank robbery. Suddenly Sara, Derek and Jared's playing with codes - and with methods of error correction - has an urgent reality. The Secret Code Menace is part of the Cold Fusion series, published by Ransom Publishing, a specialist children's publisher. The series is designed for more able readers, gifted and talented children, and those who are curious, enjoy a challenge and like thinking outside the box. The Secret Code Menace is ideal for more able readers aged 9 - 12 with a reading age of 12 + .
Secret Code Menace
Author: Pamela Cosman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781279762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A thoughtful and provocative fiction story about the science of secret codes and error correction. Sara, Derek and Jared have devised their own simple code to communicate with each other in class at school. When a written, coded message is amended en route to Sara and she gets into trouble, they start to explore how their simple code could use error correction to protect themselves against tampering by somebody.This is all a private hobby, until one day, on a school trip to a bank the class is caught up in an attempted bank robbery. Suddenly Sara, Derek and Jared's playing with codes - and with methods of error correction - has an urgent reality. The Secret Code Menace is part of the Cold Fusion series, published by Ransom Publishing, a specialist children's publisher. The series is designed for more able readers, gifted and talented children, and those who are curious, enjoy a challenge and like thinking outside the box. The Secret Code Menace is ideal for more able readers aged 9 - 12 with a reading age of 12 + .
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781279762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A thoughtful and provocative fiction story about the science of secret codes and error correction. Sara, Derek and Jared have devised their own simple code to communicate with each other in class at school. When a written, coded message is amended en route to Sara and she gets into trouble, they start to explore how their simple code could use error correction to protect themselves against tampering by somebody.This is all a private hobby, until one day, on a school trip to a bank the class is caught up in an attempted bank robbery. Suddenly Sara, Derek and Jared's playing with codes - and with methods of error correction - has an urgent reality. The Secret Code Menace is part of the Cold Fusion series, published by Ransom Publishing, a specialist children's publisher. The series is designed for more able readers, gifted and talented children, and those who are curious, enjoy a challenge and like thinking outside the box. The Secret Code Menace is ideal for more able readers aged 9 - 12 with a reading age of 12 + .
Secret Code Book: Substitution Ciphers
Author: John Redden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387346083
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Secret Code Book is a short introduction to substitution ciphers. The chapters ease young readers into the concept of rotation ciphers and work their way up to the Vigenère cipher. Along the way, readers will also learn about geometric approaches to secret codes such as the Pigpen cipher. As a bonus, there is a brief description of frequency analysis and how it is used to crack secret codes. frper gpbqr obbx In addition, this book actively challenges readers with practice missions where answers are listed in the back. Also, there is a cut-out rotation template that is provided to make your very own cipher disk! After reading this book, you will have all the basic tools needed to create secret messages.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387346083
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Secret Code Book is a short introduction to substitution ciphers. The chapters ease young readers into the concept of rotation ciphers and work their way up to the Vigenère cipher. Along the way, readers will also learn about geometric approaches to secret codes such as the Pigpen cipher. As a bonus, there is a brief description of frequency analysis and how it is used to crack secret codes. frper gpbqr obbx In addition, this book actively challenges readers with practice missions where answers are listed in the back. Also, there is a cut-out rotation template that is provided to make your very own cipher disk! After reading this book, you will have all the basic tools needed to create secret messages.
The Secret Code Book
Author: Helen Huckle
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780803717251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Presents a variety of codes and ciphers and includes messages to encode and decode
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780803717251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Presents a variety of codes and ciphers and includes messages to encode and decode
Rox's Secret Code
Author: Mara Lecocq
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1576875768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A coding adventure about a brilliant inventor and her runaway robot, Rox's Secret Code aims to inspire the next generation of female leaders in STEM! Rox is happy to spend the whole day on her laptop inventing awesome robots, but her dad wants her to clean up! When the Chorebot she designs gets a mind of its own and tries to organize the whole city, Rox and her neighbor Amar race to recode Chorebot in time to save the day.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1576875768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A coding adventure about a brilliant inventor and her runaway robot, Rox's Secret Code aims to inspire the next generation of female leaders in STEM! Rox is happy to spend the whole day on her laptop inventing awesome robots, but her dad wants her to clean up! When the Chorebot she designs gets a mind of its own and tries to organize the whole city, Rox and her neighbor Amar race to recode Chorebot in time to save the day.
The Secret Code Inside You
Author: Rajani LaRocca
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499810752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Learn about the secret code that is DNA in this vibrant and informative picture book! There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics in a way that is simple and easy for children to understand. Colorful and brilliantly illustrated, The Secret Code Inside You illustrates that while DNA may be the blueprint for how a person looks, what you choose to do with your body is entirely up to you!
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499810752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Learn about the secret code that is DNA in this vibrant and informative picture book! There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics in a way that is simple and easy for children to understand. Colorful and brilliantly illustrated, The Secret Code Inside You illustrates that while DNA may be the blueprint for how a person looks, what you choose to do with your body is entirely up to you!
The Secret Code
Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Child's Play
ISBN: 9780516263625
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.
Publisher: Child's Play
ISBN: 9780516263625
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.
The Code Book: The Secrets Behind Codebreaking
Author: Simon Singh
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375890122
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"As gripping as a good thriller." --The Washington Post Unpack the science of secrecy and discover the methods behind cryptography--the encoding and decoding of information--in this clear and easy-to-understand young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that's perfect for this age of WikiLeaks, the Sony hack, and other events that reveal the extent to which our technology is never quite as secure as we want to believe. Coders and codebreakers alike will be fascinated by history's most mesmerizing stories of intrigue and cunning--from Julius Caesar and his Caeser cipher to the Allies' use of the Enigma machine to decode German messages during World War II. Accessible, compelling, and timely, The Code Book is sure to make readers see the past--and the future--in a whole new way. "Singh's power of explaining complex ideas is as dazzling as ever." --The Guardian
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375890122
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"As gripping as a good thriller." --The Washington Post Unpack the science of secrecy and discover the methods behind cryptography--the encoding and decoding of information--in this clear and easy-to-understand young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that's perfect for this age of WikiLeaks, the Sony hack, and other events that reveal the extent to which our technology is never quite as secure as we want to believe. Coders and codebreakers alike will be fascinated by history's most mesmerizing stories of intrigue and cunning--from Julius Caesar and his Caeser cipher to the Allies' use of the Enigma machine to decode German messages during World War II. Accessible, compelling, and timely, The Code Book is sure to make readers see the past--and the future--in a whole new way. "Singh's power of explaining complex ideas is as dazzling as ever." --The Guardian
The Secret Code on Your Hands
Author: Vernon Mahabal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
When properly understood, the human hand is an unsurpassed tool for character and emotional analysis. The Secret Code on Your Hands is a captivating instruction guide to understanding how to read your own destiny in your hands, as well as your friends. Fully illustrated, with quick pointers and distinct section dividers, it is a great reference book for any aspiring palmist; a quick and accurate method to assess talents, abilities, psychology, and emotional personality in both business and romance.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
When properly understood, the human hand is an unsurpassed tool for character and emotional analysis. The Secret Code on Your Hands is a captivating instruction guide to understanding how to read your own destiny in your hands, as well as your friends. Fully illustrated, with quick pointers and distinct section dividers, it is a great reference book for any aspiring palmist; a quick and accurate method to assess talents, abilities, psychology, and emotional personality in both business and romance.
Top Secret
Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763629724
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Presents history, trivia, and code-breaking tales in a guide book to the world of secret writing that includes examples of a variety of codes and ciphers.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763629724
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Presents history, trivia, and code-breaking tales in a guide book to the world of secret writing that includes examples of a variety of codes and ciphers.
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486247618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains various methods used in cryptography and presents examples to help readers in breaking secret codes
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486247618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains various methods used in cryptography and presents examples to help readers in breaking secret codes