Morse Code by decision tree
November 7th, 2011 at 11:39 pm (Technology)
Morse Code is made of dots and dashes (or dits and dahs), which until today I thought of as a flat lookup table. And then I discovered this awesome chart:
Of COURSE! I knew that it was designed so fewer dits/dahs were needed to encode common letters like E and T, but I had never seen it laid out like this.
This chart is meant as a learning aid; rather than trying to memorize Morse code in a flat table form, you can follow the tree while you’re listening to Morse code coming in. Go left for dah, right for dit. It’s beautiful! You can try it now by going to the site linked above and listening to their sample codes. Listening to the alphabet and tracing it through the tree is a magical experience.
With practice, I imagine you start seeing the chart in your head, and then later you’ve got the letters memorized and no longer need it.
I love discovering clever aids to learning, and new ways to organize information that illuminate it in truly useful ways.