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Quick entry as placeholder. I am writing from the Launch of the code::XtremeApps:: 2008 competition. See details at http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps2008.html In T12 (last tutorial, no Q-problems, yeah!) we addressed your replies to the Fun Question
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Tutorial 5: 21-Feb-2008; (quick, personal summary) Tutorial 5 is all about databases and query processing. I use it to illustrate the difference between declarative query (like SQL) and procedural query (as done via e-project, e-select, and e-join). Declarative
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About the Partition Problem (T4-D1) The partition problem (T4-D1) is an example of a thinking problem. You are given a simple statement of the problem and you are asked to find an algorithm for solving the problem. In class, several methods were given
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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
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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
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