Problem-solving
Many people "get stuck" when faced with a new problem
- where to start?
- what approach should I use?
Some standard approaches/strategies and programming techniques
- recursion
... solve a problem in terms of a simpler version of itself
- higher-order functions
... package patterns of computation into generic tools
- divide-and-conquer
... partition problem, solve sub-problems, combine results
- dynamic programming
... cache intermediate results to improve performance
- greedy algorithms
... for optimisation, choose best option at each step
- backtracking
... make choices; in event of failure, unwind choices and try again
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