Here is the assignment version of the Mon 3PM quiz question.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Lecture 2016/10/31
Boo!
Today we’ll work on dynamic programming in two dimensions.
- Here are the new DP in 2-D notes for today.
- For next lecture, please read section 6.5 in the textbook. (No reading quiz for Wed, however.)
- Tue/Wed tutorial students: remember the quiz this week!
- Everyone: get started on the so-far-released quiz/assignment questions.
Assignment/Quiz 4, Mon 9AM Edition
Here is the assignment version of the Mon 9AM quiz question.
Lecture 2016/10/28
Today we’ll continue with (and probably finish) our work on the change-making memoization/dynamic programming problem.
- Here are sample solutions for part 1 and part 2 (updated with corrections by Victoria and others; thanks!) of the notes.
- For Monday, please read Section 6.4 of Chapter 6. There will be a pre-class quiz (for which invitations have been sent by mail, as usual).
- Don’t forget to expect quizzes in next week’s tutorial.
Lecture 2016/10/26
We’ll continue to part 2 of memoization and dynamic programming.
- Here are the part 2 notes.
- For Friday, please read section 6.3 of the textbook, but there is no pre-class quiz. (PLEASE finish 6.1 and 6.2 at minimum ASAP, however, or class time will be far less useful than it should be!)
- Loads of midterm exam info has been posted on Piazza.
- Expect a tutorial quiz next week!
Lecture 2016/10/24
Today we continue working on memoization and dynamic programming.
- For Wednesday, read Section 6.2.
- Midterm exams are graded and in the process of being scanned. More info soon!
Protected: Midterm Sample Solution
Blank copy of our Midterm Exam
Here is a blank copy of our midterm exam. (The same as the midterm, but without the cover page/exam rules and instead with a licensing footer attached.)
Lecture 2016/10/21
Today we move on to memoization and dynamic programming! This is a widely applicable technique that also lets us practice algorithm design and analysis, designing recursive solutions, and designing iterative solutions. Woo-hoo! 🙂
- Here are today’s notes (part 1 on Memoization and DP using the change example).
- For Monday, read Section 6.1.
- I will try to post a quiz, but the UBC Survey system is crashing for me. If I cannot post it by noon on Saturday, I won’t, but please work the problems anyway!
Here is the quiz:
- The recursive solution to the weighted interval scheduling problem has to make one key decision among two or more choices by trying all the choices and picking the best. What is the decision?
- Which among all the previous events will go before this event
- Whether or not to include this event in the solution
- Whether the next event’s start time is before this event’s finish time (i.e., they conflict)
- How do we figure out that there are only n+1 total possible sub-problems in the memoized solution?
- Because the only legal arguments to the algorithm are 0 through n.
- Because of the algorithm’s “for” loop going from 0 up to n.
- Because the algorithm runs in O(n) time.
- The recursive solution to the weighted interval scheduling problem has to make one key decision among two or more choices by trying all the choices and picking the best. What is the decision?
- We’re working on grading the exam and will be done soon. However, scanning/handback is likely to take until roughly class time on Wednesday.
- There will be no quiz in next week’s class. Sorry! Too busy with exam prep/marking to get one together 🙁
Solution to Tug-O-War Notes
Here’s a solution to the tug-o-war notes (quicksort/quickselect).