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? Important topics - Algorithmic Thinking with Python - Franklin's lectures

The document outlines a curriculum focused on problem-solving strategies, including definitions, characteristics, and applications of various methods such as trial and error, algorithms, and heuristics. It emphasizes the problem-solving process through six steps and includes modules on algorithms, flowcharts, Python programming fundamentals, and computational approaches. Practical exercises are encouraged throughout to reinforce learning and application of concepts.

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? Important topics - Algorithmic Thinking with Python - Franklin's lectures

The document outlines a curriculum focused on problem-solving strategies, including definitions, characteristics, and applications of various methods such as trial and error, algorithms, and heuristics. It emphasizes the problem-solving process through six steps and includes modules on algorithms, flowcharts, Python programming fundamentals, and computational approaches. Practical exercises are encouraged throughout to reinforce learning and application of concepts.

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IMPORTANT TOPICS

MODULE 1
PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES,
THEIR DEFINITION CHARACTERISTICS

HOW TO APPLY THEM (TRIAL AND ERROR,


ALGORITHMIC, HEURISTICS,
MEANS-ENDS ANALYSIS, AND BACKTRACKING)

THE PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESS

(UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM, FORMULATING


A MODEL, DEVELOPING AN ALGORITHM,
WRITING THE PROGRAM, TESTING THE PROGRAM,
ANDEVALUATINGTHE SOLUTION)

LEARN THE ABOVE SIX STEPS, THEIR


DEFINITION AND HOW TO APPLY THEM TO A
PROBLEM (PRACTICE PROBLEMS)
MODULE 2
ALGORITHM, FLOWCHART AND PSEUDOCODE
(PRACTICE AS MUCH PROBLEMS AS POSSIBLE)
MODULE 3
FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRUCTS OF PYTHON
PROGRAMMING (SELECTION, ITERATION,
SEQUENCE DATA TYPES), LEARN BY PRACTICING
EXAMPLE PYTHON PROGRAMS.

RECURSION (PRACTICE RECURSIVE FUNCTION


PROGRAMS)

RECURSION (PRACTICE RECURSIDECOMPOSITION


AND MODULARISATIONVE FUNCTION PROGRAMS)
MODULE 4
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO PROBLEM
SOLVING, THEIR DEFINITION AND
CHARACTERISTICS
(BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH, DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER
APPROACH, DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH,
GREEDY ALGORITHM APPROACH, RANDOMIZED
APPROACH)

PRACTICE EXAMPLE PROBLEMS OF GREEDY


ALGORITHM APPROACH AND RANDOMIZED
APPROACH

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