Lecture 23 | Programming Abstractions (Stanford)

Lecture 23 by Julie Zelenski for the Programming Abstractions Course (CS106B) in the Stanford Computer Science Department.

Julie shows a YouTube video of Barack Obama answering a question about what kind of sorting algorithm he would use to sort a list of data. She also gives several examples of problems that are capable of being solved with sorting. She goes on to say that if you think about certain problems as graphs, finding the solution is sometimes easier as well as easier to understand. To be able to do this, she explains how to represent graphs in C++.

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[mattowine]

GIDLA,

Yea, the theoretical looks all fine and dandy, BUT THEN they say program it. Therein lies the rub.

[human417]

@sindredit she should be in kitchen right? lol, nah, she's great, speaks fire and kicks out knowledge

[sindredit]

Why is there a woman teaching?

[gr33ny]

@AGENTtamerlane it's because she explains it so well. other than that, i guess "the average person" just isn't that interested in programming

[AGENTtamerlane]

@GIDLA3VINAY ....... should the average person be able to understand this?I am 26 and never taken any college classes, followed along with it fairly easily. My brain hasn't really been forced to think like that in years so the first 5-10 minutes was a little unclear but I picked it up after that. Anyone taking classes like this have an opinion. It would be appreciated..

[supermburu]

What a fox! *purrs*

[jaykumarark]

Thanks a lot Mrs. Zelenski!

[Pachangs]

good lecture. Thank you.