Computer Science 385
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2019, Siena College
Lecture 14: Solving Recurrences
Date: Friday, February 15, 2019
Agenda
- Announcements
- Lab 4: Brute-Force Algorithms submissions will accepted through today
- Problem Set 2: [PDF]
- due at 4:00 today, all in hard copy except the programming task which must be committed and pushed to GitHub
- regular late penalties over the weekend, but hard cutoff Monday at the start of class when we'll go over some of the problems and sample solutions will be released
- Lab 5: Graph Traversals, is just due
before you go for Winter Break (Friday, February 22)
- Exam 1 next Tuesday: handout with information and practice questions
- Quiz 2 quick recap
- Analyzing recursive algorithms with recurrences
- our approach: backward substitution
- changing variables when problem sizes are divided