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From: mgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Marc Green)
Subject: ALGORITHMS ANYBODY?
Message-ID: <90Aug22.090345edt.9450@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 22 Aug 90 13:03:58 GMT
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A few weeks ago, I posted a request for suggestions on teaching a
languages course. Thanks to all who responded.

I've decided to center the course of the view that computer languages
are a way to formally specify algorithms. I'd like the students to
program the same 3-4 algorithms in several languages, to get a feel
for the differences.

I am now asking for suggestions on good algorithms/problems to have
them implement. I have in mind algorithms like bubble-sort,
merge-sort, tree-search and problems like the Tower of Hanoi. Any
others? (My students are not computer jocks and can't handle anything
too esoteric.)

Marc Green
Trent University