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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lossless File Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using lossless text and image compression algorithms and considering what data can be compressed most easily.
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Learn the Net: Download Files

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an excellent set of instructions on how to save files to your hard drive and how to download software, as well as an overview on file formats and extensions.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff

For Students 6th - 8th
In this project you'll learn about how digital image files are encoded, and how digital images can be compressed so that the files take up less storage space and can be transmitted more quickly. You will also measure the quality of...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff

For Students 6th - 8th
In this project you'll learn about how digital image files are encoded, and compressed. You will also measure the quality of compressed and uncompressed images, which will give you important insights into the tradeoffs between file size...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lossless Bit Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers represent all data in binary, so all types of files, from text to images to videos, are ultimately sequences of bits. Regardless of whether the bits represent a document or a GIF, computers can use a bit compression technique...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lossy vs. Lossless Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Check your understanding of lossy and lossless compression techniques, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Can Computers Reduce File Size?

For Students 9th - 10th
Reducing the file size using Lossless and Lossy for file compression.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lossy Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Lossy Compression to reduce a file size.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Text Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Lossless text compression is discussed.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Image Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Lossless single image compression by using the algorithm run-length encoding (RLE).
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Tech Savvy Tips and Tricks: Working With Zip Files

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how zip files work for storage and transmission of files.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Liquids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This overview of liquids explores what a liquid is and how matter becomes changes into a liquid.
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University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...