<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Karl Freeman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karlfreeman@gmail.com" target="_blank">karlfreeman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'd second that and would give a +1 on leaving searching/sorting algorithms out (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg" target="_blank">Not that they aren't interesting</a>!) but some practical examples would be excellent (<a href="http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/tsort/rdoc/TSort.html" target="_blank">TSort</a> comes to mind as something I've only just discovered which is right there in the stdlib)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Karl.</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2014 09:45, David Salgado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@digitalronin.com" target="_blank">david@digitalronin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would definitely be interested in that.<div><br></div><div>David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 February 2014 23:49, Najaf Ali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@happybearsoftware.com" target="_blank">ali@happybearsoftware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dearest LRUGgers & LRUGgettes,<div><br></div><div>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:</div>
<div><br></div><div>* 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.</div><div>* 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.</div>
<div>* Practical tips for learning them and putting them to work when you're at the coalface building software for the man.</div><div><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial">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.</span><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Would there be any interest in such a talk?</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Ali</div></font></span></div>
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