Coding may refer to:
Computer science
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Computer programming
Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called computer program, programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves designing and implementing algorithms, step-by-step specifications of proc ...
, the process of creating and maintaining the source code of computer programs
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Line coding
In telecommunications, a line code is a pattern of voltage, current, or photons used to represent digital data transmitted down a communication channel or written to a storage medium. This repertoire of signals is usually called a constrained ...
, in data storage
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Source coding
In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compressi ...
, compression used in data transmission
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Coding theory
Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...
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Channel coding
In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for error control, controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channel ...
Other uses
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Coding (social sciences)
In the social sciences, coding is an analytical process in which data, in both quantitative form (such as questionnaires results) or qualitative form (such as interview transcripts) are categorized to facilitate analysis.
One purpose of coding ...
, an analytical process in which data are categorized for analysis
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Coding strand of DNA in molecular biology
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Legal coding
Legal coding is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast-search index or database of documents for use in litigation.
Objective Coding Definitions
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, the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document in the legal profession
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Medical coding, representation of medical diagnoses and procedures in standard code numbers
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Number coding in Metro Manila, a road space rationing policy implemented in Metro Manila, Philippines, commonly referred to as "coding"
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Coding (therapy), alternative therapeutic methods used to treat addictions in the post-Soviet countries
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Queer coding
See also
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Code
In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communicati ...
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Entropy encoding
In information theory, an entropy coding (or entropy encoding) is any lossless data compression method that attempts to approach the lower bound declared by Shannon's source coding theorem, which states that any lossless data compression method ...
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Transform coding
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