Detailed review of MIT's OCW course "Introduction to Algorithms", Part I: Analysis of Algorithms and Asymptotic Notation

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-introduction-to-algorithms-part-one/

by pkrumins • 18 years ago

71 12 18 years ago

Very nice, especially the idea to share your lecture notes. The best way to really learn a subject is to teach others...

sri• 18 years ago

there is lots of content (mit open courseware, lectures from many universities in iTunes, free books being released online) available for self-learners.

is there a "virtual university/classroom" website that helps different people to study together?

something simple & free -- like craigslist.

corecirculator• 18 years ago

if it doesn't exist already, its a good idea for a startup.

jauco• 18 years ago

http://www.lecturefox.com/

michael_dorfman• 18 years ago

I've watched this course online, and it's a great one.

A few random comments:

* It is a good idea to download the course materials from http://ocw.mit.edu/ans15436/ZipForEndUsers/6/6-046JFall-2005...

* The video lectures can be downloaded if you hack the URLs a bit. Full instructions at: http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-data-stru..., but it doesn't bode well if you can't figure it out for yourself

* The math gets significantly less heavy after the first few lectures. If you get lost, plow ahead and revisit the first few lectures after you've gotten further.

* Erik Demaine rocks. He went straight to the top of my list of "computer scientists I'd like to have a beer with sometime..."

* I found the discussions of Red-Black Trees and the graph theory "trilogy" to be especially enjoyable, but that could just be me.

mamama• 18 years ago

However, Charles Leiserson is a pedantic douche.

pchristensen2• 18 years ago

For anyone else interested in downloading MIT lectures, I wrote a way to do it without using realplayer.

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/ripping-and-encodi...

sammyo• 18 years ago

Just download the files direct:

http://mit-ocw-thai.eng.chula.ac.th/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/he...

lpgauth• 18 years ago

I watched these for one of my classes but I sould of just bought the book instead.

j2d2• 18 years ago

I'd like to hear more about the projects this guy works on. I recall he wrote a command line tool for navigating HN.

aswanson• 18 years ago

Great quote from his blog: "There are only two industries in which customers are called 'users' ".

Detailed review of MIT's OCW course "Introduction to Algorithms", Part I: Analysis of Algorithms and Asymptotic Notation

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