Book Scavenger: Books on Coding

Contents Codes all around us -- Breaking down cryptography -- Codes throughout history -- Code play.
Summary "Discusses different methods for creating secret codes"--Provided by publisher.

All language is code -- Learning about language -- Spoken codes in history -- Working codes -- Fun with codes.
Summary "Looks at historic and modern spoken codes and secret languages, from simple substitution codes, to the Navajo language based code used against the Japanese in World War Two"--Provided by publisher.
Audience RL: 3-4.

Queen's code crackers -- Transposition codes -- Substitution codes -- Book ciphers and beyond -- What was the secret message?

Codemaking -- Nonsecret codes -- Secret codes -- book code -- dictionary code -- Codetalking -- Pig Latin -- Turkish Irish -- Ciphers -- Caesar cipher -- St. Cyr slide -- Keyboard cipher -- Morse code -- Semaphore -- Pigpen cipher -- Rosicrucian cipher -- Date shift cipher -- Greek square cipher -- Greek skytale -- Rail fence cipher -- Route transposition cipher -- Codebreaking -- Concealment -- Early concealment techniques -- Null cipher -- Cardano grille -- Word grille -- Space code -- Playing card code -- Dot cipher -- Line cipher -- Zigzag cipher -- Invisible inks -- Codemakers and codebreakers hall of fame.