Computer Science 385
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2017, Siena College
Lecture 1: Introduction to Algorithms
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Agenda
- Welcome to Algorithms!
- Announcements
- Read Levitin sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.3 for Friday
- Please bring laptop computers to labs starting next week if
you have them
- What is this course about?
- Pseudocode
- Basics of counting and algorithm analysis
- Bubble sort
- Lab 1: Counting Operations
Terminology
- pseudocode
- counting basic operations