My main source will be Steve Roman's book in the bibliography but it does not completely cover our syllabus. I will try to keep updated lecture notes with detailed pointers to the bibliography.
- Lecture notes (typos corrected Feb. 13th)
Lecture notes by David Forney introducing the basics of finite fields from scratch.
The error correction zoo.
A fantastic set of lectures on information theory by David Mackay and an associated book.
Some of the various notes from MIT's discrete math course by may be useful.
Some of the various notes from MIT's discrete math course by may be useful.
You can access the webpages for previous instances of this course in the +Info link at the top of the course page.