Recommended Background - Students should be comfortable writing intermediate size (300+ line) programs in Python and have a basic understanding of searching, sorting, and recursion. The main focus of these tasks is to understand interaction between the algorithms and the structure of the data sets being analyzed by these algorithms. As the central part of the course, students will implement several important graph algorithms in Python and then use these algorithms to analyze two large real-world data sets. In part 1 of this course, we will study the notion of algorithmic efficiency and consider its application to several problems from graph theory.

This two-part course builds on the principles that you learned in our Principles of Computing course and is designed to train students in the mathematical concepts and process of 'Algorithmic Thinking', allowing them to build simpler, more efficient solutions to real-world computational problems. Experienced Computer Scientists analyze and solve computational problems at a level of abstraction that is beyond that of any particular programming language.

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