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68falcon

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is there an online page or something that i can get a basic understanding of algorithms. i was looking at the college i was planning on going to and under computer science and engineering that came up a lot.
 
An algorithm is simply a set of instructions that lead to a solution.
They are used a lot in computing, but can be used anywhere. Basically a computer program is one complex algorithm, usually made up of a bunch of smaller algorithms.

Not sure what you exactly want to know, but I'm sure google will give you all the info you'd ever want.
 
Yeah. Algorithm is just a word for computational strategy to solve a problem. I'm not sure what you want to study before going to school or if you just want to know what it means, because you'll learn everything in class 🙂. You might want a basic understanding of classes of problems (P, NP -- esp. what NP-complete means) and for putting boundaries on the running times of an algorithm (at least know what Big-O is).

But, really, you'll learn about all that in class. Good luck!
 
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