Codes

Dungeons

Computer Programming

Code Breaking Competition.

In September 2007 several teams from Whitehaven School entered the Cipher Challenge.. This is a national code and cipher breaking competition. Three of our students actually won £25.

How to Break Codes

Learn as much as you can about the language, writer and words in the message that you are trying to break. See if you can find similar documents to the one you are attacking. Look at how they are constructed. Try to guess if there are certain words or phrases that are likely to be in the message you are investigating.

Now try to discover if the message has been enciphered using letters or symbols or whether it has just been jumbled up in some way.
The easiest way to do this is to compare the letter frequencies in the target message with those of an unenciphered message in the original language.

These techniques will crack most simple cipher systems.

This link takes you to the index of the codes section of this website.

Links to code breaking sites.

Simon Singh's Homepage. Simon Singh is the author of "The Codebook". His website provides an excellent introduction to the whole are a of codes, ciphers and code breaking.

Cryptology Links Page This page has a huge number of code cracking resources. We can't vouch for what they might do to your computer though!

Cipher Wheel. Basic but usable stuff on codes.

Dungeon Construction

See also the Logo programming sections on windows, networking and file operations. You could use Logo to run a MUD over the school network.

Writing an Online Dungeon Adventure. How to construct a basic dungeon game using HTML and Javascript.

Computer Programming

At present our computer room is down. Currently, a few students are programming in Logo. See the main Logo pages for details of Logo programming activities.
Beginning Logo.
More advanced Logo.

Java Programming Page A page charting our various misdemeanours in the field of Java programming.