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Everything about Character (computing)
Symbols encoded in computers to make text
In computing and telecommunications, a character is the encoded representation of a natural language character, whitespace, or a control character. A sequence of characters is called a string. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Character (computing)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Wearable Real-Time Character Recognition System Based on Edge Computing-Enabled Deep Learning for Air-WritingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: From Russia, with loveThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: CHEVIE ? A system for computing and processing generic character tablesCited 251 times
- Go sideways: Character encodingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: UTF-32A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
CHEVIE ? A system for computing and processing generic character tables
Handwritten Bangla character recognition using a soft computing paradigm embedded in two pass approach
A New Deep Learning-Based Handwritten Character Recognition System on Mobile Computing Devices
Computing the character table of a finite group
Vision-based single-stroke character recognition for wearable computing
Mediating the microcomputer: The educational character of the 1980s British popular computing boom
Computing character degrees in p-groups
Computing longest palindromic substring after single-character or block-wise edits
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Wearable Real-Time Character Recognition System Based on Edge Computing-Enabled Deep Learning for Air-Writing
Fuzzy Conversational Character Computing
Comparison and Effect of Persistent Character and Mathematical Process Skills on Fractional Computing Operation Materials in Elementary School
Application of Edge Computing in Real Time Data Processing to Enhance Non-Player Character Behavior in Game AI Systems
Computing character tables of symmetric groups using higher order permutation representations
📚 Books worth reading
From Russia, with loveIan Fleming · 1957
2001Arthur C. Clarke · 1968
Män som hatar kvinnorStieg Larsson · 2005
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity CodeEoin Colfer · 2003
StormbreakerAnthony Horowitz · 2000
Luftslottet som sprängdesStieg Larsson · 2007
The Sum of All FearsTom Clancy · 1991
Step on a CrackJames Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 1658
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