Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Problems (RSS)
Tutorial 4: 14-Feb-2008; (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 4, D1 is a "thinking problem" (in an earlier comment, Hung said that he likes them), D2 aims to clearly demonstrate the reason for focussing on "rate of growth" of functions, and why we can
Read More...
Tutorial 3: (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 3, my aims were (1) to encourage learning algorithms by designing them. We have D1 that extends the idea of swapping two variables. I use this problem to discuss generalizing it to "create holes" when
Read More...
Tutorial 2: (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 2, my aims were (1) to get/force students to simulate an algorithm themselves (learning via doing; understanding via more doing; and mastering through even more understanding), (2) discuss/explain the
Read More...
Tutorial 1: (quick, personal summary) In Tutorial 1, my aim was to illustrate the difficulty associated with coming up with a "good" section of step-by-step instructions to achieve a task, any task. Multiple issues arise: what level of detail (abstraction),
Read More...