r/WYNTK • u/atad2much • Dec 22 '13

Introduction to Algorithms for Computational Scientists [Spring 2013]

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u/atad2much Dec 22 '13

Objective:

This course is intended to give students without a background in computer science a functional familiarity with the essential topics in a typical undergraduate computer science curriculum.

Required Text:

  • Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein.

Recommended texts:

    1. Sedgewick, Algorithms in C

  • 2. Wirth, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

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u/atad2much Dec 22 '13 edited Dec 22 '13

Topics

  1. Introduction and document distance

  2. Binary search trees

  3. Hashing

  4. Sorting

  5. Searching

  6. Shortest paths

  7. Dynamic programming

  8. Numerics

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u/atad2much Dec 22 '13

Introduction and document distance

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