Algorithms Orbit

A basic algorithm course is about building up the abstract steps intended to solve a specific quandary. It introduces the going-to-be programmer to the fundamental tools mundanely utilized, namely reading from the standard input, writing on the standard output, conditional control structure, iterative control structure, and of course a trivial introduction to scalar data types (int [short], char, real [float, double], and boolean). The accompanying programming course is to concretize the aforementioned. Further, the importance of data structures (their prerequisite are the scalar data types) appear when a beginner programmer has to move to "next level": manipulating arrays.  Arrays allow to gather homogeneous values within one variable at run-time . Niklaus Wirth  made use of a very, very critical equation to entitle his book ( Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs ), in the 1970s already. A data structures course is supposed to introduce students to the pletho...

Have you ever realized that Algorithms are omnipresent in our daily life? For instance, reckoning bills and coins, consuming a beverage in a café, or taking the bus back and forth, are actions that involve a sequence of endeavors performed with the aim to achieve an eventual purpose. Philosophically, I hope it is eligible to assert that an algorithm could be described as "Meta-Actions": Actions about Actions (imitating the definition of  Meta-Data : Data about Data). Nowadays, computer programmers are the main population that is concerned, or haunted, to some extent, by the consumption of the rules and laws offered by the field of Algorithms, to produce solutions whenever applicable, within the obfuscated realm of zeros and ones. Indeed, a computer programmer in the twenty first century is someone who should acquire a training in basic algorithm , combined with a programming language (distinct courses, respectively), data structures , algorithm analysis along ...

Algorithm? What is Algorithm? More precisely, What is the origin of the word itself? Let's analyse the word, before we analyse what it vaguely refers to as a field. Dissecting the word: Algo + Rithm ? The prefix Algo-: Listing a few words in the dictionary, I encountered the word "Algology", which means "the branch of botany that studies algae"  wordweb . Wrong track for sure. The suffix -Rithm: Phonetically, it sounds like Rhythm ... Intuitively, we might subjectively be leaned to provide an explanation related to "something recurring at regular intervals" wordweb . Yes, Rithm and Rhythm are two distinct words that have nothing in common, except the partial homonymy . Dr. Rashid Bin Muhammad, the Computer Science professor at the University of Kent, included in the page of his Design and Analysis of Algorithm  course, the picture and the name of an ancient scientist (born in Baghdad) like the following: Abu Ja'far Muhammad...