Programming. Eventually, an algorithm moves to the programming phase, where a set of modules and a list of instructions are created to solve the defined problem and verified against the ground truth.

Such algorithms are often quite efficient and provide useful bounds on the optimal solutions. The learning will be supported by instructor provided notes, readings from textbooks and assignments.

A computer program is simply an algorithm written for a computer. Algorithms are frequently displayed as flow charts, like Sheldon's friendship algorithm.

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) .

Yes, it’s a computer programming a computer. Be thankful Skynet is 18 years late. When we first saw [Kory]’s work , he had programmed a computer to write and run its own programs in Brainfuck.

Dynamic programming (DP) algorithms have become indispensable in computational biology, addressing problems that range from sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference to RNA secondary structure ...