See How It Works for details. This course continues our data structures and algorithms specialization by focussing on the use of linear and integer programming formulations for solving algorithmic ...

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 ...

Ordinary programming algorithms tell the computer what to do in a straightforward way. For example, sorting algorithms turn unordered data into data ordered by some criteria, often the numeric or ...

In computer science, a programmer must employ five basic parts of an algorithm to create a successful program: Describe the problem in mathematical terms Create the formulas and processes that ...

Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.