Asymptotic complexities

Finding a pen in a classroom of n students

O(n^2) - Asking each student and ask him about others too
O(n) - Asking each student
O(logn) - Dividing class equally and asking each half
O(1) - Damn it, I have it in my pocket 😂😂

Yes! 😎

Hope this hasn't been posted before, found it hilarious.
From /r/ProgrammerHumor

This guy is the best coworker ever. He analyzes my algorithms, advises me when to eat or take breaks, and reminds me not to take life too seriously. He's pretty helpful with debugging too.

How great algorithms are made!
(Unknown original source)

This is brilliant 😂😂

Almost every f*****g time :(

Today I discovered MIT OpenCourseWare.

I hate university, and I usually doze off during lectures, but my god, I've been listening to "Introduction to Algorithms" for about 6 hours now, and I'm hanging on to every word.

A substring problem? Here, have 3 nested for loops 😏😏

solving algorithms and ds problems :-

In C++ - I hate pointers.
In Java - I miss pointers

Yay practical algorithms!

Gets me everytime :3

1. You will write ugly code. Code that is in dire need of refactoring almost immediately.

2. You will write brilliant code. Functions and algorithms that will impress all that use them.

3. 1 & 2 are not mutually exclusive. Good software can be written poorly, beautifully written code can be useless. At the end of the day, just get the job done.

Familiar with this Book?
My Teacher said it's the Bible of Algorithms for Beginners.

True story!!

Sorting algorithms visualized

If you like Google algorithms better, you can always just precede your duckduckgo search with !Google
Returns an encrypted Google search

No caption! Its itself explanatory 😂

when ur parents try to understand what u do.

DevRant uses *coding* and *algorithms* to humiliate ranters

Was recently phone interviewed by a recruiter that asked "So do you know data structures and algorithms?" I replied "That's like asking someone if they know Mathematics - can you be a bit more specific?"

Protip: appending ", dammit" to your Google searches tells their NLP algorithms that you need more relevant results

"They used coding AND algorithms"
Wow I didn't know that you can use those together!

Source: reddit

Our Algorithms and Data Structures lecturer would have died on the spot if you showed him code like that...

My algorithms professor uses safari on Windows as his main browser

Well...

Oh man !! Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) !! I feel like I'm flying whenever I'm coding geometry !!

Feels so goooooood !!

Special algorithm 😂

By learning the basis of things instead of just using them.
for example I learn cryptographic algorithms behind ssl instead of just using it.

Code-flow and algorithms are just meaningful doodles, you know 😁

(!rant)

Agree.

This is the right way to deal with GOOGLE and their ALGORITHMS. Confuse the fuck out of them.

Me: Browsing the security of a website.

Tell the website developer that they are using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm for encrypting the credentials of it's registered users.

Them: Yeah, so what?

Me: You shouldn't be using an algorithm which was exploited years ago in the age of 2016.

Them: Don't worry, nothing will happen.

Me: *facepalm*

I want to thank every Indian computer scientist on Youtube. Because of these guys I passed my Algorithms and Data Structures Exam.

when you screw up at a coding interview because you couldn't remember an algorithm you havent used in 7 years.

Come to a festival they said.. .. It'll be fun they said.. Here I'm ranting and reading machine learning algorithms under a tree, while others party. Omg.

Just read that EU may planning regulating Algorithms...

What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?

They want that programmers make their Algorithms public accessible for transparency and say what algorithms are allowed to do, because people are scared of them?!

MY BRAIN HURTS AFTER THAT FUCKING GENERAL DATA PROTECTION BULLSHIT THEY WANT TO REGULATE HOW OUR PROGRAMS SHOULD WORK?!

AHDHSHSJSDHJABDJS SHDNSBDBSNSN *RAGEQUIT*

Crowdsource let's you improve Google's algorithms by manually identifying items. I helped the world today by making sure "sex" = "sex"

This is my life in the university in a nutshell. That's why I learned so much algorithms. :')

Einstein :" Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.

Me: O yeah? Try nondeterministic algorithms

That's how you simplify stuff and everyone will believe it's rocket science.

Well...

Yeah ofcourse, Gotta be today's special 😂😂😅

If ML algorithms mess with us, NO DEBUGGING... That's it, no MERCY AT ALL!!!

programing for life :p

I run very fast; Almost at O(1)

I hate bullshit metrics, they are everywhere.

- 90% unlimited downloads (not unlimited then is it, dickface)
- you are 53% more likely to be noticed with a pro account (yeah, because you fucked with the algorithms)

Algorithms strike again :D

By the way I really much agree on both rants. People asking questions that they not even once typed into Google. Disturbing my workflow every 5 minutes...

Tty, Catch and what about throw ?? 😄😄

Some top-notch learning algorithms you have there Google 👌

This is triggering me sooo much!!!

My Data Structures and Algorithms sample midterm exam's instructions mentions "No Morse Code allowed"

Can anyone recommend good books for coding algorithm​s?

Any tips and tricks would also be helpful. Thanks.

The index to Sedgewick's Algorithms book says:

recursion, 35
see also base case,
see also recursion

What does sorting and sex have in common? In both cases we hope for a great Big O.
I'll see myself out 😅

Happy palindrome week !!!

Big-O Emoji

'Yay!! My program runs and is giving expected output.'

** Professor gives large input file **

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

'FML'

(My story in every algorithms lab)

Today is my fourth try to pass advanced algorithms. Wish me luck.

Complexity of algorithms

After solving a lot of problems in codeforces and participating in ACM to make my code the most optimised..
* In my first real job. *
Client: Your program run so fast!! I can't feel if it's doing something or not. Please make a delay of 1 second in your program! 😇
Me: 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Could you imagine a guy who takes A4 paper with encrypted text using modern algorithms and decrypts it in 20 minutes which pen and his mind?

Today during my Algorithms lab, the guy sitting to my left began digging his nose like he had buried treasure there. 🤢
Oh how I wanted to smash his face on his keyboard. 😭

Is it just me or are sorting algorithms really, really, calming?

When you don't want to explain what you've done with application's code base so you play the "algorithm" card.

Boss: tell me about the new release.
Me: updated the search algorithms boss.
Boss: cool. Release!
Me: 😎

How many of you think that we might be living in a computer simulation? 🙄😐😓

No harm in having little fun along with work..

I got ranted,by our teacher in algorithms lab, because I was compiling the code using terminal and was not using torboC (there wasn't any IDE installed on the system) 😃

Sometimes I feel MS Excel is more intelligent at predicting my next moves whenever I open a new sheet than Google's AI and ML algorithms who have been tracking me for years now.

Had to hand in as assigment for my algorithms & data structure course and really put alot of work into it, commented code, easy to understand and all.
"Why are you showing me copied code from the internet?" was the professors answer...
I did not copy any code and some algorithms often look the same...

So I just completed reading this book and it was pretty awesome. Can anyone recommend me similar books? Which are not language specific but cover computer science concepts & is fun to read.

When you implement an algorithm on your first try:

This is documentation at a noob-program level. We had this one teacher, who shall remain unnamed, who used single letter variable names everywhere, who couldn't understand his own programs when they were shown to him.
PS - The picture attached is supposed to be an implementation of Kruskal's algorithm. Don't ask me what the variables mean.

After watching Mr Robot, I installed Kali and learnt to hack WiFi passwords via brute force. Was utterly disappointed that, most crackers just use prebuilt tools instead of developing their own algorithms and programs.

Dad: why are you doing IT after I put you through business school

Me: because you're the one that nagged me not to do it instead CS.... So now I'm stuck in IT... Because I can't seem to understand Big O and algorithms needed to pass a technical interview...

Diving into genetic algorithms right now (its 4 am), am i just a rare specimen or is this not hard at all?

Who else is bored of developing an app and interested in a bot or self learning algorithms?

Note to myself: don't start writing algorithms at 2 am

When you learn Quick Sort and it is hard to hold back this classic reference...

Everytime I am sad, I feel a bit off
>sad_frog.jpg

When you find out you passed the exam in which you guessed half of the answers ! 🎆🎉🎊
The algorithms of my brain seem to work well 🤣
This is now my second best module and I didn't study a lot hahaha

Had my algorithms and data structures lab this week... 6pm-9pm

No one sat next to me or talked to me... probably cause I’m the only girl in the class :/

My favorite sorting algorithm.

microsoft-is-using-ai-to-make-windows-10-updates-smoother
They used coding and algorithms to detect when you’re working

Today's the day I start learning C++ at Uni!!!

Got introduced to RLE on a rant the other day and holy shit doing more research into it and it's algorithms... How the fuck have I not known of this?!?!?!

Data Structures and Algorithms: the single most difficult class in university.

I'm making a renderer but I can't work on it right now so I'm reading about different algorithms and stuff and I'm so hyped to carry on with it tomorrow - such a fun project!

Don't you hate it when politicians and newscasters talk about Google's, Facebook's, whatever's algorithms without really knowing what the word "algorithm" means?

A few years ago, only few people knew the word existed, and now you find people going around, saying things like:

"I don't know why YouTube recommended that video to me. 'Their algorithm' must be mad."

Teacher asks the class:
"How do you become a good developer?"

All the students starts talking about algorithms, problem solving or working in a team.

He nods and starts writing on the board. w w w. g o o g l e . c o m
He then leaves the classroom.

So here I am years later, a master googler and a expert stack overflower.

"Let's go to buy Laptop for you. You're going to be Computer Engineer"

after 2 months
" What do you do all day spending on laptop?"
"Programing"
"Well, how's that work?"
"It follows some algorithms to get desired output"
"???, Some important files are accidentally deleted from my usb storage. Can you recover those files?"

😮😣

Learning neural network algorithms and feeling very accomplished........

.......then checks out OpenCV and flips desk.

Ok, wtf is going on brain?!

Why do I keep having dreams of code and algorithms? Let me sleep!

Then what else is lost... ?😂😂

That feeling when recursion finally "clicks", and you begin instantly identifying candidates in your code for recursive solutions.

How many of these algorithms do you know

At the University, Algorithms class, exercises lesson..the assistant explaining the results of an assignment:

"Because here..if we use a classic 'if-else' loop..."

😳

Usual liars.
People who can look into your eyes and lie.
Heuristic algorithms.

At last !!
All projects are done!

Done 3 compiler project (with 3 separate documentation)
And 6 different Algorithms for algorithm design and analysis.(including my own project)

Been coding so hard to finish them ontime and now I made it :)

Why does everyone here only use Spotify? I think Google Play Music's algorithms are better

I was all happy using and applying Machine Learning algorithms until I came to do a Research Internship and now I'm sitting in the lab studying Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics the whole day just to cope up with the guys who are improving and developing algorithms here!

I was absolutely angry, my ego had been wounded. I had built the entire product from scratch, while my bosses just clinged onto one feature that i had not done.

It wasn't even going to be used i knew that and hence was slack. It also required a lot of algo writing.

Post the discussion i decided I'm gonna take out my hurt ego's anger on this algo. I drank whole night and coded. Damn fucking one of the most complex logics i had ever written. It was done and tested while the sun rose. And i slept, next day was a Sunday. I couldn't get hungover.

I was wrong, the logic was used and is one of the core logics of the product. Something that we boast of. 😁

Me trying to impress my girlfriend with the light painting.

Motivated me to develop my own algorithm for the effect.

Is it possible to build a program that can detect if an image is a meme or not?

Externally Playing Fifa,but actually thinking about the algorithms and the code...

So just finished my last algorithms and data structures class frequency, feeling pretty confident about the grade, today it'll be all weed, pizza and sex. Life is good :')

So in my last post I was angry that I didnt know many algorithms or how to make one, so you guys inspired me to learn about them and I found a course I'm gonna take about algorithms and such. I'm incorporating it into my learning schedule so let's hope this leads to me not being stupid.

my vision about life changed as I started learning about algorithms and programming, which I consider as an advantage, tho I can't help but wonder if people in different fields feel the same.
it also feels like I over-think since then, a constant need to analyze things which is overwhelming sometimes.

I always feel inspired by programming when I create some algorithms or programs which I can use when I need to.

Small utilities and command line programs r what I make at times... and I also enjoy trying to implement them awesome algorithms 😍

However, most inspiration I get is from looking at C code though ( especially the Linux kernel... that code is SO clean 😍😍 )

For starters this is my first post, found devrant the other day you're all hilarious.

I hate math, I hate proofs. I'm in a class "Analysis of Algorithms" and I have understood and do understand the importance of optimizing algorithms and data structures and I understand the algorithms and data structures themselves. That being said, I'm fucking sick of math and proofs and all this bullshit that is probably pretty important but ugggghh, I guess I just have to push through, but writing this out helped.

I just wrote unit tests for like the first time in my life (didn't find it useful in university, someone else handing in the project always did that). It cut my coding time by a factor of 3! You should try this one if haven't already, it really saved me a lot of headache right now.

Writing "Algorithms and Data-structures" exam in an hour.. Only coding C++ on paper .__.

Been watching some videos on Algorithms and my mind bleeds. Do people who know this stuff really calculate complexities for each method they write?

studyng algorithms and data structures :(

This algorithms will never cease to amuse me!

Holy shit man...

I know its supposed to be hard but I cant ignore how much I want to give up right now.

I've been learning JS for months now, doing daily algorithm challenges, going strong on my freecodecamp dev map and still, I feel like I might no be cut out for this.

It's been more than a week now trying to implement a minimax algorithm into my tic tac toe game. I can't, for the life of me its just getting more frustrating by the day and its driving me crazy! How the fuck am I supposed to ever get a junior webdev job if I can't do something as simple as this!, And I keep reading and reading the theory but I cant implement it into my code! It just makes me want to quit (again)!

I really need to work on my attitude...

I hate when theres simple problems I cant solve. Legit pisses me off. I cant even program a simple number sorting algorithm. 🤬

Design patterns are algorithms without loops 🤓

Things that make me mad in school: when "ap computer science" is a class that literally just teaches you Java syntax and nothing about any theory and algorithms. Like c'mon

Does anyone here know a good book about algorithms? I'm looking something a bit more advanced

What do you think about this level Inheritance 😃

I just officially graduated from a web dev program and it feels...

Very underwhelming.

Learned ES6, React, Webpack, service workers, offline databases, accessibility, (...bla bla bla)

And my knowledge with data structures and algorithms isn't even that great yet.

I look at the stuff I still don't know and wonder if I'll ever be comfortable with my level of expertise.

OK, end of massive fucking 1 year long Dunning-Kruger wave. Time to learn C and algorithms. Looks like I'm Learning the curriculum in reverse order but nothing too bad.

is it normal that i go to the 2nd best cs college in my whole country, also ranked in top 200 colleges globally in the world, and they don't teach us anything about algorithms?

Yesterday, while I was studying for an algorithm exam, I realized I used induction on trees in a wrong way for six months.

Fellow Deviants, I need your help in understanding the importance of C++

Okay, I need to clarify a few things:

I am not a beginner or a newbie who has just entered this community...

I have been using C++ for some time and in fact, it was the language which introduced me to the world of programming... Before, I switched to Java, since I found it much better for application development...

I already know about the obvious arguments given in favour of C/C++ like how it is a much more faster and memory efficient than other languages...

But, at the same time, C/C++ exposes us and doesn't protect us from ourselves.. I hope that you understand what I mean to say..

And, I guess that it is a fair tradeoff for the kind of power and control that these languages (C/C++) provide us..

And, I also agree with the fact that it is an language that ideally suits our need, if we wish to deal with compilers, graphics, OS, etc, in the future...

But, what I really want to ask here is:

In this age and times, when hardware has advanced so much, where technically, memory efficiency or execution speeds no longer is the topmost priority... These were the reasons for which C/C++ was initially created...

In today's time, human concept of time matters more and hence, syntactical less complicated languages like Java or Python are much more preferred, especially for domains like application development or data sciences...

So, is continuing with C++, an endeavour worth sticking with in the future or is it not required...

I am talking about this issue since I am in a dilemma about the use of C++ in the future...

I would be grateful if we could talk about keeping AI, Machine Learning or Algorithms Optimisation in mind... Since, these are the fields in which I am interested in...

I know that my question could have been posted in a better way.. But, considering the chaos that is present in my mind, regarding this question doesn't allow me to do so...

Any kind of suggestion or thoughts would be welcome and much appreciated...

P.S: I currently use C++ only for competitive programming or challenges...

Don't get the logic where good understanding of algorithms is only needed for backend developers.

Finished a program for my friend’s bachelor thesis in just 2+ hours (and some),

It was implementing maze making and maze solving algorithms in JS

Fucking recursive algorithms. Does anyone actually use them when programming in real life?

What's the best way for someone who is terrible at maths to get better at algorithms. I'm pretty good at programming but when it comes to write an algorithm, it scares me because of my poor math.

Is there another way or do you think going back and starting maths from scratch will help?

Due to the constant change in accuracy of my keyboards' predictive algorithms, I now find myself switching between SwiftKey and GBoard... 😢😔

Anyone else feel the same?

Do you think one may become a good programmer or coder without excellent knowledge of mathematics or algorithms?

I haven't touched algorithms for many months but needed to create a matching algorithm today.

It has to match using variations of the original key and output the keys that can't be matched.

The feeling in my head felt like I was turning rusty gears n sort of just stumbling through...

I used an N^2 approach but afterwards it just felt wrong... And it took me like an hour of hacking to do it....

Actually I just realized it's an N approach! because all possible matches would be hit by iterating from one of the lists of possible names!

I suddenly feel so proud of my subsconcious...

But still something doesn't feel right...

What is this? A flow chart for learning how algorithms work?
Nope! I call it: dynamic timetable 😎

Anyone else get annoyed at people who complain about "tha algorithm's!!!" All the time? Like Instagram and Facebook tweak their "algorithm's" just to specifically to fuck with people and they act as if they know how the "algorithm's" work.

"Instagram has tweaked its algorithm so only 10% of people see your posts" - bitch please. That's just not how these things work, they don't just flip a fucking switch and pick percentages at random. Like how are they supposed to "fix their algorithm"? Do you even know what an algorithm is? How they might work?

That moment, when you meet someone who haven't written even a simple if-else statement in their life and want to work on Deep Learning algorithms using TensorFlow. World is filled with so many ML crazy peoe.

I know this sounds odd, but I really find algorithms things of delightful beauty.

A creative solution to some very deceptively complex problems.

Sure, some implementations aren't the best, but seeing them after just makes me appreciate the time and effort that must have gone into designing things like Merge Sort, Binary Search, Greedy Algorithms, BST, and Dijkstra's Algorithm.

So! If your code is unoptimal, looks terrible, or is a sheer abomination, take a moment to appreciate the little piece of art you've made before you go and make it better.

Generator functions should be treated like sorting algorithms: Not worth your time if all you have is 4 or less async instructions.
Callback hell is actually kind of nice and warm when you're a just a few levels down. If you're really confused by your obfuscated code, you suck at node.

I don't get it. Why do front end devs need to learn algorithms to get their interview done?

1. Study C and Python
2. Learn NLP and ML
3. Participate again in one hackathon and kick their ass after winning it
4. Get one awesome internship
5. Master algorithms and DS

I feel i am the only one in my class at uni who actually likes algorithms :D

Algorithms teacher: I don't know how to work this thing. (computer) ... Students constantly have to go up front and help him do basic computer stuff. Even worse, he types with two fingers! Why education system must you suck so bad???

I have a problem to solve but I just can't come up with any working algorithm or idea to solve it. I feel really fucking stupid right now

To the one who did a degree:
How mush do you use the algorithms you've learnt in the college/University?

Class about to end, instructor announces quiz. Looks at friend, sees him opening up algo app on his phone playing all algorithms in simulation mode 😂

I’m stressing out man. I can look at let’s just say a sorting algorithm for now. I can look at that insertion sort and I can understand what’s happening, but if you were to tell me I was supposed to be able to write that just based off a description I couldn’t. I need to be able to design and understand algorithms but I don’t know where or how to start. There was some course I was gonna try and see what that does. I put aside JS completely to focus on C# but I’m just stressing out over here. I learned the basics of C# although I feel like I’m learning it wrong but I’m moving on to SQLite and it’s my first Database experience and it’s confusing me and I also don’t know how I’m going to be able to use it for my future applications yet I’m just expecting too much out of me idk I love programming but sometimes it’s a cruel mistress

When you show the client the comprehensive administration system they ordered but their young female HR leader is "more into pictures than tables".

For now on I am just going to say I am a Psychologist... for computers. And my algorithms are what shape the behavior (:

I am wondering how a #FunctionalProgramming based implementation of a Binary Search Tree would look like?

Has anyone tried it?

I hate C++

CS majors be like:

"She got a big theta, so I call her big Oh."

Just implemented A* and Dijkstra to get into pathfinding with graphs. Really hyped about this! TIL that Dijkstra is perfect to find the quickest subway route in my city 😏

when you forget simple algorithms while coding :(

What do you think is worthy of GitHub?

I have this idea that none of my personal projects are worthy of GitHub. Most of them are graphical visualisations, like fraktals and sorting algorithms, and small <200 lines scripts that are in no way useful, like benchmarks of sorting algorithms and different programming languages.

How do you guys know when the project is worthy?

Sidekik - A Sidekik for all Data Structures and Algorithms you need.

A Lodash for Data structures

Got rejected in an interview today, because I lack knowledge in Data Structures and Algorithms. 😔😞

I guess I'll have to bursh up my Algo skills again.

Definition of Algorithms...........

Donald Knuth. TeX. Also, pioneer of fundamental algorithms.

In an algorithm class, professor introduced us to some simple search algorithms (bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, shell sort). He did a quite decent job and most of the students were able to grasp the code and understand the differences in those algorithms. But then he spoiled his whole lecture with one additional slide. There he proposed an optimization: Instead of using a temporary swap variable, we just could use the first array element (or the zeroth element, respectively: the one ad index 0) for doing all the swapping. We just had to document that, so that the caller would "leave the first position of the array empty", resulting in "cleaner code". And he did that in the same class where he used Big-O notation to argue about runtime complexity. But having the caller to resize the array and to shift all the elements by one position did not matter to him at all, because it was "not part of the actual algorithm".

Big O definition on Google .. !! 😂😂

PS : Found on reddit.

What do you guys think about people who call themselves programmers after learning few technologies from Onlinecourse’s . I don’t want to call someone programmer who doesn’t know very important and useful concepts called data structures and algorithms.

Me(the first day fo spring semester): Data Structures and Algorithms shouldn't be too hard of a class! This will be interesting!

Me(a couple days into class): I don't understand anything she's saying and the programming problems are in some pretty rough English...why me?!?

Anyone else like... REALLY bad at algorithms and logic stuff?

I just hate them so much.

Tell me to build something and gg done. But all these tests for jobs freak me out.

Like. It probably ends up being something simple and when it's explained I know what to do but at first I just instantly shut down and can't think.

I will have to present some algorithms at our school festival next week.
Any idea for a good real world example to demonstrate how breadth first search works?

!important in CSS and not commenting complex algorithms in c#

Worst sorting algorithm in your opinion?

How do you think recursively? Any tips?

A music server where people can login and add their own music to channels, with request lists and priority lists algorithms. Welp atleast the streaming part is done

Just downloaded a thesis template with a title "Improved algorithms for the cultivation of lettuce on the coastal plane"

~learn react enough to make a full-stack web app
~learn Flutter
~get good enough at data structures and algorithms to pass a fucking coding skills test

Wish me luck, I'm returning back to Uni after a months long hiatus. Algorithms, Node and rest API awaits me 😓

Heyy friends :-) Milo here once again, i hope everyone is having an absolutely amazing day as always and I really hope the upcoming week ahead brings everyone the best ☺️.

So I have finally managed to hand in all my major projects for my semester last Friday (yay less stress 😅) but tomorrow i have a final presentation to do (wish me luck 😅) ... boy am I nervous, but as of right now I’m just going over my slides ahah 😄.

So in my free time over the next couple of weeks I’m really planning on gaining a better understanding of algorithms , I’d love some input from
Anyone and any advice I’d highly appreciate!, currently i have a book called introduction to algorithms third addition sitting on my desktop and I’ve been reading some of that 😃..

So ladies and gents, once again thank you for taking the time to read my
Rambling and long post.. i just have a habit of rambling on 😄.. my bad , once again - thank you!

Milo 😃❤️

My CS department's professor for our algorithms class (learning stuff like big O, shortest path, etc.) was tenured and hated teaching. He preferred working on his research but was required to teach as part of his tenure. Not only did he hate teaching, he was also bad at it.

This man would stand at the front of the room, mumble into the chalkboard (we still had chalkboards in 2010 for some reason), and work through algorithm proofs. You could not hear or understand him past the 1st row. Occasionally, he'd make a mistake on the board, realise it halfway through the proof, go back, change it, and continue on with absolutely no explanation.

The class as a whole hated him because we literally were unable to learn under him. We ended up going to the department head. The department head thought he was going to be dealing with 1-2 students complaining about a professor for no reason. Instead, he got 12 students (half the class) who all said they couldn't learn under this professor and detailed the problems.

The department acted on this by getting the prof a TA to help explain what was going on to the class and hired a lesson plan writer for him. Remember, this is a professor with tenure and who has taught this class for about 20 years.

I had to drop the class to save my GPA before the changes took effect because my grade was too far gone, but the students that stayed noted a marked improvement.

I got this prof again the next semester and all of the changes they made the previous semester were dropped because it was too expensive for the department to keep up with. I manage to power through with help from a kind TA and walked out with my C.

When I graduated, we had the opportunity to discuss anything we wanted about the programme with the department head in an exit interview. Few students show up to these because they're optional, but I made sure to do so.

I told tales of the great professors I had throughout my degree and then moved onto this guy.

I told them they need to either have him stop teaching or do something about his tenure because he was actively preventing students from learning a critical part of their degree programme.

The response I got was as follows.

"So we get complaints every semester and during these exit interviews about this professor. We know he's terrible, but his tenure prevents us from doing much. We keep encouraging him to retire, but at 70 he still refuses to do so. He actually had a heart attack about a month ago and while he's recovering fine, we're hoping that this pushes him to finally retire."

Seriously, I get that tenure is helpful in some scenarios, but when you have to hope that a professor either dies or retires because you can't do anything about how bad he is, tenure isn't working right.

What could possibly be wrong with me if I had to look at almost every single answer of the Basic Algorithm Scripting exercises on FreeCodeCamp? I spend days tying to solve some of them and just couldn’t. Had to look at the answers. Then I try few days after and maybe remember half of the answer. How can I change this?

One of the best algorithms I have designed ever

Popular opinion: AI is nothing more than complicated algorithms that no one appreciated before and probably never will. 99.9% of all coding would be AI if mainstream media had their way.

Reading CLRS ~> Spend half hour reading how to cut rods to profit the most... I love Algorithms 😍😍😍😍

Rob Pike.

Together with Ken Thompson designed UTF-8, and created golang.

I also like his simplicity idea in software development:
“Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.”

Anyone else think the class algorithms in college was difficult?

Do you guys also feel difficulty when you try to write algorithms in the new language? I feel like I am stupid cause I don’t event know the methods for coding the algorithms which can be easy with the language I already know

A newbie trying to understand Algorithms....suicide. No jokes here.

I know how to code. I am good at coding, algorithms, datastructures. I have also been using linux since 4 years.

But still I am not a programmer. I work on excel in office.

What do i do?

I worry about problems that don't exists yet. Look for breaches that are not made. And am pissed off at things that are slow but I've never used them.

Data Structures professor enters class, today's topic being RBTs. He opens slides, forgot to redact the name and university from where he blatantly copied it from. Continues anyways. *Facepalm*