Huffman Coding
Implementing a Huffman Tree is a fun afternoon project for anyone interested in learning about data compression. A Huffman Tree is a type of binary tree that sees use in the compression of an arbitrary data file. Developing a command line utility to compress/decompress a file using Huffman coding is a good CS101 challenge. Breaking It Down Into Steps This project starts where many do: Wikipedia. The Huffman Coding wiki article gives a nice breakdown with examples of the data structure and associated algorithms....