The course gives an overview of basic methods for constructing error-correcting codes suitable for transferring information, as well as the application of combinatorial approcahes in Coding theory.
Literature
Hill: A First Course in Coding Theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford, reprinted 2009.
Advised literature
Assmus, Key: Designs and their Codes, University of Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0-521-458639-0.
Hankerson et al.: Coding Theory and Cryptography, CRC Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8247-0465-7.