[Year 12 SofDev] algorithms, deskchecking and data types
Steven Bird
sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Thu Oct 8 07:16:51 EST 2009
> Thank you, Paul. I like them too. It's the students that don't.
CS Unplugged has well-motivated problems involving a variety of
interesting algorithms:
http://csunplugged.org/activities
There's a couple of engaging books by David Harel, giving a
fascinating overview of the whole field. The first is a slim
paperback with a picture of an exploding computer on the front, and
gives an introduction to computability (what can or cannot be
computed, or computed efficiently, and why) that would be accessible
to a secondary student. The second is an introductory textbook on
algorithms.
Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do, Oxford University Press, 2003
Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition), Addison Wesley, 2004
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Steven Bird
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/
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