Duke University — Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS — Honors Section

I can not believe how entertaining this week has been. This section had some of the most interesting material to date. It kept me wanting more every second of every video.

We discussed Steganography. Steganography is the hiding of secret messages or images within another picture. I never would have expected this topic to be the honors week material. If there was a topic that someone could put at the end of a course to make a student interested in the next course in the sequence, this is it. You learn how to write programs to calculate the first set of significant digits of your fore-image, drop the insignificant digits and replace them with the first significant digits of your background-image. This way, if you go through taking the insignificant digits of the combined image, making them the significant digits of a new image and adding zeros for the insignificant digits, you will be returned a close copy of the hidden image.

While I fear I can not explain it well, I am extremely enthused and am now looking forward to the next course in the Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization.

Thank you for reading!