This course covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming ... s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others.

Assignments will include conceptual multiple-choice questions as well as problem solving assignments that will involve programming and testing algorithms. This module introduces the basics of linear ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All ... they were difficult to use. At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

Topics include hardware, software, algorithms, operating systems, networks. An introduction to computer programming motivated by the analysis of biological data sets and the modeling of biological ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) . We will ...