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Intro to Algorithms

What is an algorithm and why should you care?A Guessing Game Route-finding

Binary Search

Binary Search Implementing Binary Search of an Array Challenge: Binary Search Running Time of Binary Search Quiz: Running time of binary search

Asymptotic Analysis

Introduction to Asymptotic notation Big-θ (Big-Theta) notation Functions in Asymptotic Notation Big-O notation Big-Ω (Big-Omega) notation Quiz: Asymptotic notation

Selection Sort

Sorting Challenge: Implement Swap Selection Sort Pseudocode Challenge: Find minimum in Subarray Challenge: Implement Selection Sort Analysis of Selection Sort

Insertion Sort

Insertion Sort Challenge: Insert a Value Before an Index in Sorted Order Insertion Sort pseudocode Challenge: Implement Insertion Sort Analysis of Insertion Sort

Recursion Algorithms

Recursion The factorial function Challenge: Iterative factorial Recursive factorial Challenge: Recursive factorial Properties of recursive algorithms Using recursion to determine whether a word is a palindrome Challenge: is a string a palindrome?Computing powers of a number Challenge: Recursive Powers The Sierpinski gasket

Towers of Hanoi

Towers of Hanoi Move three disks in Towers of Hanoi Towers of Hanoi, continued Challenge: Solve Hanoi recursively

Merge Sort

Divide and Conquer Algorithms

Overview of Merge Sort

Challenge: Implement Merge Sort

Linear-time Merging

Challenge: Implement Merge

Analysis of Merge Sort

Quick Sort

Overview of Quicksort Challenge: Implement Quicksort Linear-time Partitioning Challenge: Implement Partition Analysis of Quicksort

Graphs

Describing graphs Representing graphs Challenge: Store a graph

Breadth-first Search

Breadth-first search and its uses The breadth-first search algorithm Challenge: Implement breadth-first search Analysis of breadth-first search

License

Why did we port Cormen and Balkcom's Algorithms course?License

Non-comparison based sorting algorithms

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Divide and Conquer Algorithms

Divide and Conquer Algorithms

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Divide-and-conquer

The two sorting algorithms we've seen so far, selection sort and insertion sort, have worst-case running times of $\Theta(n^2)$ . When the size of the input array is large, these algorithms can take a ...