Lecture14: Data Structures and Algorithms - Richard Buckland

[321noone]

the reward system in the brain has to be engaged, and engaged early-frustration is good, but it has to be broken up with more triumph moments. This builds confidence. The previous semesters' work needs to be revisited via small coding tests and summaries.

[321noone]

Also, the LIVE commentary is most useful-and, more, doing MANY small exercises is more useful than big blocks of code. Like, write 5 different structs or whatever..like when we were taught maths in school, repetition makes it work.

[321noone]

Hi richard-

for us students who are not very confident with coding, I found that it helped immensely when our demonstrator starting putting up partial introductory code video- he gives a commentary as he codes, and its in video-we just see the code he's typing and his commentary as to why he's doing this or that-he introduces whats the thing for this week, starts off with a simple thing, doing the imports, and then explains what a struct is, does an example of one, and calls it in other code.

[SheckleTheDon]

Just a quick question:

Are there any lectures on graph algorithms such as Dijkstra's, Kruskal's and Prim's?

[senos64]

Richard, you really are the man. Helps me keep up with my datastructures & algorithms course.

Greetings from Sweden.

[yegentube]

So why did you stop posting lectures ?

[BucklandRichard]

A change in the way we recorded last semester means each lecture now has to be hand edited edited and recompressed for youtube which typically takes about a day per recording and only happens when i have a free day so the rate has slowed hugely... don't worry we'll get there eventually!

cheers

richard

[ShittiestChannelOnYT]

Maybe if your university has video editing courses, you could force them to edit the videos for you, for "practice"? :)

[BucklandRichard]

also, just for fun, since November 2009 the youtube upload process frequently and seemingly randomly fails silently - a weird and frustrating situation which seems to be affecting numerous other youtube uploaders also.

hopefully google will sort this out sometime...

for instance i've been trying to upload COMP1927 Lecture 15 for several weeks now, each time getting no more than an unhelpful "upload failed" message after 6 hours or so. gnnargh!

[Pachangs]

code monkey want more videos. He wants them faster.

[TheHappyCoder]

On this thumbnail Richard looks like Anakin Skywalker with that stick at the board :)