Computer Science 385
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2018, Siena College
Lecture 16: Dynamic Programming
Date: Friday, March 16, 2018
Agenda
- Announcements
- Lab 8: Search Trees [PDF] due as usual at the start of your lab next week
- We will have another quiz in class a week from today: a couple questions about divide and conquer algorithms and search trees
- no office hours this afternoon
- Quiz 2 recap
- Lab 7: Decrease and Conquer and Divide and Conquer [PDF] quick recap
- We will recap Problem Set 4: [PDF] next week, hopefully once I have had a chance to grade them
- Problem Set 5: [PDF] out
- Dynamic programming
- basic idea and motivation
- first examples
- top-down vs.bottom-up
Terminology