No matter how far we are in our careers as professional developers, it's great to freshen up on our fundamentals. Be it the importance of Memory Access Patterns or algorithms in general, it's really beneficial. I find it quiet interesting that it's been a pretty long time since I sat in the algorithms and data structures course on my technical institute and I tend to understand it completely different now. I heard a really great thing from a professor at MIT who said the following:
You can practice really hard for two years to become a great programmer and you can practice for 10 years to become an excellent programmer. Or you can practice for two years and take an algorithms course and become an excellent programmer
A lot of us might not think about the daily algorithms and data structures that we use, in fact, we hide behind ORMs and such that hides complexity and introduces behavior that we might not be aware of. Which is one of the reasons I personally like to read up on algorithms from time to time. This time though, I've decided to share some of the things I learn and like, hopefully you'll like it and it will help you to become an excellent programmer.
If you haven't seen this, MIT has a website called Open Courseware where they have video recordings, lecture notes, assignments and exams from their courses. There is one in particular which I recently found and it's excellent so far, it's called Introduction to Algorithms. If it's been a while since you looked into these topics, have a look at their content. Some of the examples and snippets here are from the lectures in this particular course.
Read full article from Understanding Peak-Finding
No comments:
Post a Comment