Скачать или смотреть Essentials Algorithms to become a "grown up" programmer

We'll discuss:
Binary Search
Hashing (MD5, SHA1, Birthday paradox)
Merge Sort
Dijkstra’s algorithm
Euclidean Algorithm

Some Resources to tease your mind until next week
Complexity of Music - http://t.co/o3Ml9c04Pm
Best (worst) code comments - http://t.co/kVruHUWbVx
Letter from a Jedi to a Padawan [actually that's not the name :)] - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/...

One exercise to prepare for the session: "Given there are 50 employees on a given company what's the probability that two of them have the same birthday (day and month)" - you can solve it analytically or write a Ruby, Python, etc small program to simulate the results.

About grown up programs: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evo...

About real programmers: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/re...