Coding-Decoding

What is Coding and Decoding?

• Coding is a process used to encrypt a word, a number in a particular code or pattern based on some set of rules. Hence Coding is the process of sending data from one person to another person in such a way that only the sender and receiver can understand the meaning without letting anyone else know the meaning of it. 
• Decoding is a process to decrypt the pattern into its original form from the given codes.
• Coding-Decoding is a system of signals to transmit the information in the form of signals or code without it being known to a  third party. 

• Coding decoding concepts can work in our real life. 

For example, if you notice that your kid can learn their letter sounds in kindergarten it means what sound to make when the letter is written on the board. The kid progresses to identify the constant vowel words, which helps to read loudly such as cat, dog, sun.

Kids will move to learn decoding words with consonant clusters, such as st, tr, cr, sk kids will learn to identify the words easily and kids is to phonics the words and phoneme to the words easily. 

Types of Coding and Decoding

Number coding-decoding in which either the numerical code values are assigned to a word or alphabetical code letters are assigned to the numbers.
Example for Number/Symbol coding-decoding.
If CHAIR is written as ‘12345’, RENT is written as ‘5678’,    and then     REAR is written as.

• 5635
• 5356
• 5365
• 5653

Answer:

In this question each alphabet is coded as a number. So that CHAIR is coded as 12345 and RENT is coded as 5678 and the REAR is coded as 5635.

Substitution coding-decoding in which some particular words are assigned with certain substituted names.
Example for Substitution coding-decoding.
If a dog is called “cat”, cat is called “lion”, lion is called “rat”, then which of these lives in a forest?

• Rat
• Lion
• Dog
• Cat

Answer: In this question, lion lives in the forest but lion is called a rat so rat lives in a forest is the answer.

Miscellaneous examples for coding-decoding

Question 1: If the desk is called "chair", chair is called "blackboard", blackboard is called "duster", duster is called "chalk", and then where do you sit in the classroom?

• Blackboard
• Chair
• Desk
• Duster

Answer: In this question, we clearly know that in the classroom we sit on a  chair.And as the chair is called a blackboard, the answer is blackboard.

Question 2: If cake is called “egg”, if egg is called “coffee”, coffee is called “tea”, then which is white in colour?

• Cake
• Egg
• Coffee
• Tea

Answer: Egg is of white colour.But egg is called coffee so coffee is the answer.

Question 3: If January is called “March”, March is called “April” and April is called “May”, then which of the following months will have only 30 days?

• January
• March
• April
• May

Answer: January, March and May have 31days and April has 30 days.But April is called May so the answer is May.

Question 4: If NECK is written as '123%', LUCK is written as '+@3%' and LIKE is written as '+÷%2', then NICE is written as

• 1%÷3
• 1÷32
• 1÷@2
• ÷13+

Answer: NECK is written as '123%', LUCK is written as '+@3%' and LIKE is written as '+÷%2', then NICE so N is coded as 1 and I is coded as ÷ and C is coded as 3 and E is coded as 2 so answer is 1÷32.

Question 5: If MEDICO is written as 'PBGFFL', then DOCTOR is coded as

• GLFQRO
• GLFQLR
• GLFQLS
• GRFWLQ

Answer: The letter MEDICO is coded as PBGFFL and the letter M is moved forward by two letters and is coded as P, E is moved backward by two letters and is coded as B, D is moved forward by two letters and is coded as G, I is moved backward by two letters and is coded as F, C is moved forward by two letters and is  coded as F, O is moved backward by two letters and is coded as L. So DOCTOR is coded as GLFQRO.

Question 6: 

Answer: The circle has infinite lines of symmetry but, circle means rectangle so the answer is rectangle.

Conclusion

Coding-decoding covers all aspects of learning, focuses on improving children’s logical reasoning skills, and children's ability to identify individual sounds that makeup words. Coding-decoding helps the children to improve their fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and to phonemic words.

Coding-decoding helps to learn about how communication happens, Types of coding-decoding, learn to match the pattern with numbers, symbols, and letters. Coding decoding is the reasoning booster to improve reading skills and comprehension. 

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