[LRUG] Talk proposal

[Najaf Ali]

Yep, tsort is one of the ones I was considering but it's a little tough to
cover in the two-three minute slot it will get in the talk. There are
plenty of other fun ones where that came from though, so you'll hopefully
learn one or two new tricks in the talk.


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Karl Freeman <karlfreeman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd second that and would give a +1 on leaving searching/sorting
> algorithms out (Not that they aren't interesting<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg>!)
> but some practical examples would be excellent (TSort<http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/tsort/rdoc/TSort.html>comes to mind as something I've only just discovered which is right there
> in the stdlib)
>
> Karl.
>
>
> On 25 February 2014 09:45, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
>
>> I would definitely be interested in that.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 24 February 2014 23:49, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dearest LRUGgers & LRUGgettes,
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of putting together a talk on how learning data structures
>>> and algorithms can help you do the computers better. It would likely look
>>> something like this:
>>>
>>> * Why you should bother learning about them at all, especially if like
>>> many you feel as though you'd never use them in your day job.
>>> * Walk-throughs of examples, both interesting insights on workaday ones
>>> you're probably familiar with and other perhaps more fruitylicious
>>> constructs you may not have heard of.
>>> * Practical tips for learning them and putting them to work when you're
>>> at the coalface building software for the man.
>>>
>>> Scouts honour: I'm going to avoid the well trodden ground of
>>> searching/sorting algorithms and big O notation that half of us have
>>> forgotten from our CS courses and just focus on practical utility and fun
>>> examples of things I've discovered on spelunking expeditions.
>>>
>>> Would there be any interest in such a talk?
>>>
>>> -Ali
>>>
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