CPSC 320 2017W1

Here’s Part 1 of our Making Change worksheet.

We don’t code a lot in CPSC 320, and that’s intentional. You have lots of coding classes in CPSC. Reasoning about problems, writing about them on paper or whiteboards, designing and analyzing solutions: these are all incredibly important skills to be a successful Computer Scientist, no matter what work you take on.

However, now and then, it’s fun to code. Especially when an algorithm is so completely bizarre that it’s hard to believe it works without trying it.

Enter Deterministic Select.

We’ll do our best to code this rather intricate algorithm live, after working through the ideas that lead up to it. It could even work!

If you’d like to follow along, try opening https://ubc.syzygy.ca. You can then download our blank DSelect Jupyter Notebook to your computer, start your Syzygy server, and use the “Upload” button to upload the notebook onto syzygy. Use the “play”, “up”, and “down” buttons on syzygy to run code and navigate among the cells.

You can also see blank copies in plain python, PDF, or HTML.

Here’s our worksheet on tug-o-war and divide-and-conquer algorithms.

Here are sample solutions to the Clustering Completed worksheet.

Here’s a sample solution to the first clustering worksheet.

We’ve designed our clustering algorithm. Now, we need to prove it really works. Let’s finish working through clustering.

UPDATE: We replaced the last two problems of the worksheet. Here is the updated version of the clustering completed worksheet.