In a few words, It's just ME
For so long I’ve been wanting to study Algorithms, since our beloved college doesn’t know “Algorithms” was even invented. And since the best source to really learn them is the legendary book “Introduction to Algorithms”, I decided to start this week. It’s gonna be a tough ride, cause I tried before and it was really difficult to even finish the first two chapters, but I’m intended to do it nevertheless.
So I want to achieve maximum “fruitfulness” with this experience by creating a study group in H4ck3rz for students who are interested in studying Algorithms. We can study together in parallel, meet online to summarize, solve exercises together and share our “hard times” . I’ve the book, videos, some good resources that can help us go through it. Maybe at the end we can create some simplified study plan with our experience in this book, best places of help we had and what did we need to study in order to complete such a book “And there’ll be many
“. More details will be on H4ck3rz website . I currently posted that on my wire but once I find a better place on H4ck3rz to announce this I’ll update this post. Till then if anyone is interested please let me know here or via mail. I’ll surely enjoy “not” doing this alone
Updated:
We’ll be managing our study group through a H4ck3rz group
bingorabbit
July 12th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Hey, interesting, can you send me the videos please?
Abd4llA
July 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Here Bingo you can find the videos and some other material, it’s a great site and we’ll use it in the study group extensively isA.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-046JFall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm
shami
July 12th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Sounds Very nice
, btw the Book is not that hard, it just requires some good mathematics background and especially Discrete mathematics and also requires “FOCUS”. anyway good Luck in that, may be i will join you and share some other resources that might help
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shami
July 12th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
btw i Dont recommend that you hit in the book directly, but you may have to read about some mathematics topics first as i said, like : 1-Solving Sums. 2-Counting Methods. 3-Solving Recurrence Equations 4-Series. 5-some probability Theory. and also Combinatories
Abd4llA
July 12th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
@shami, thnx man, waiting for you to join
. As for the mathematics, I know we’ll face that but I intend to learn that in the way, when we face it we learn it. Btw, did you read that book ?
shami
July 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I was planning to read it, but i am thinking now in other things. I read about 4 chapters and understood them 90%, but before i do so i studied some discrete math .i also wrote some perl scripts to emulate the first 2 algorithms i encountered which are insertion sort and Merge Sort.I will post them soon isA on my Blog