Intro to Algorithms

May 24, 2017
12 min
Season 1 - Episode 13: Intro to Algorithms

Season 1 - Episode 13: Intro to Algorithms

Intro to Algorithms - Episode 13

Overview

Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this isn’t a new concept. Since the development of math itself algorithms have been needed to help us complete tasks more efficiently, but today we’re going to take a look a couple modern computing problems like sorting and graph search, and show how we’ve made them more efficient so you can more easily find cheap airfare or map directions to Winterfell... or like a restaurant or something.

Episode Information

TV Show

Crash Course Computer Science

Season

Season 1

Episode Number

13

Air Date

May 24, 2017

Runtime

12 minutes