4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
7:02 a.m.
On 06/03/2013 07:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
When I taught beginning Data Structures And
Algorithms, I always got a few
students who rejected the idea of being efficient ("throw hardware at
it"), and specifically objected to spending an entire 3 hour class session
on how to create algorithms for sorting and searching datasets too big to
fit into memory ("just get a bigger computer and load it all into a single
array in memory!")
I've run across a few of those guys. I delight in firing them. I'm sure
some of them, to this day, have no idea of why.
Bravo for your efforts to pound some sanity into these idiots' heads.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA