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Yep. 
/ravi
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Loved the link!! Where was YouTube when I was learning the Quick-Sort? Oh right ARPANET didn't have YouTube.
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Playing cards are useful tool. Shuffle them, deal them out and then demonstrate one of the algorithms to physically sort. Get student to have a go.
Then show the algorithm's pseudocode and show how it links to the physical process of sorting the cards. Allow only one card to be moved at a time or you will end up combining statements into one, you'll need to designate a space on the table as register/memory location.
If you want to demonstrate why a computer needs these algorithms, whereas a human does not, turn the cards face down and allow only two card faces to be seen at any one time while applying the algorithm.
Practice beforehand
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You're so screwed 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Understatement!
/ravi
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One of my Engineering profs told us,
"After you graduate you will forget half of what you learned. Also, you will only use half of what you learned. The trick is to forget the correct half."
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Just curious, why would you hold onto those books for so long?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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How long have you held onto your wife?
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Have you told your wife that you are comparing her to a bunch of old books?
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Well, it's better'n a bunch of old bags, innit?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Just curious, why would you hold onto those books for so long?
Russian torrents are your friend!
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ZurdoDev wrote: Just curious, why would you hold onto those books for so long?
Have you taken a look to the new books?
I did (helping out the son of a friend). And there are very, very few that are better than mine back then.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Have you taken a look to the new books?
No.
Nelek wrote: very few that are better than mine back then.
But are you ever going to read your old text books?
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Yes. I have had the need a couple of times, due to things I was working on. I have not and won't re-read the whole book, for sure I will probably never touch again some chapters. But it doesn't mean that the whole book is not worth to keep.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: the whole book is not worth to keep.
To me it is. Just google it. You can find anything now.
We tend to store too much stuff.
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I had edited my message, but since you were that fast answering... I post it here:
Quote: Well, actually the most important things are my notes included inside to explain how to look at some things and what I needed to understand it back then. Those are priceless for me
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Those books are like old, old friends. I had some of the best and worst times with those books.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Those books are like old, old friends
My question still stands. Why hold onto them?
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This is something that I've been doing in my retirement. What I do is come up with a personal set of notes for any subject, with the complete derivation & proofs of applicability. I have substantially finished notes for Algebra (i.e., regular Algebra, not Abstract Algebra), Linear Algebra, Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry, Geometric Optics & Special Relativity. I happen to be in the middle of Calculus, and to give an idea of how thorough my notes are, I've derived every integral formula that one would find on the inside cover of a Calculus book  and have even gone through the epsilon-delta proofs needed to be able to prove that a certain function is continuous (a necessary condition for calculus to work).
I delved into Linear Algebra quite deep, proving that all the stuff that was simply lectured as fact in the typical "Differential Equations & Linear Algebra" course for non-mathematicians, like why the determinant of the product of a pair of matrices is the product of the determinants of those matrices (something that simply wowed me when I learned it) and similarly about rank (and how to determine it) and finally about null space and how it really ties into the eigenvalue problem, and also why & when a matrix can even be diagonalized via eigenvalues, and finally why the mechanical vibration problem works having a pair of matrices instead of just a single one. I studied Mechanical Engineering, and so there is plenty of stuff to review (i.e., at least the advanced "basic physics" engineering science material), etc.
For regular Algebra I was able to grok how Lagrangian resolvents can be used to get formulae for the cubic & quartic polynomials - including an extraordinarily geeky delving into those formulae.  I even derived the method of partial fractions, which is used in Calculus, and why it works.
Last but not least, I've even examined isohedra (i.e., all the different shapes that can used in Dungeons & Dragons). There are still a few classes of shapes I need to go through.
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But do you know the average laden velocity of a European swallow?  Sound like you have been having fun!
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Nice!
My differential Topology books are the ones I'm keen to get back to, though I'm going to need some serious quiet time to get into them. Special Relativity was no drama: it's the General Rel. that got messy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As a long retired structural engineer I was interviewed for a school project the other day by a pair of fourteen year olds. Embarrassing. 'Nuff said.
However I can still remember the almost spiritual feeling when my maths teacher demonstrated Euler's Identity. I doubt if I could recreate the derivation but you've prompted me to try.
Thank you.
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I had a teacher in grade 12 prove that over time the moon's orbit will settle down so that one face always faces Earth. It was simple, elegant, and fitted on one board. It was probably the first proof I saw that caused a fairly big shift in my brain. Something went 'click' and that was it for me.
Good times, eh?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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