6.006 Introduction to Algorithms (Fall 2011, MIT OCW). Taught by Professor Erik Demaine and Professor Srinivas Devadas, this course provides an introduction to mathematical modeling of computational problems. It covers the common algorithms, algorithmic paradigms, and data structures used to solve these problems. The course emphasizes the relationship between algorithms and programming, and introduces basic performance measures and analysis techniques for these problems.
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Lecture 02 - Models of Computation, Document Distance
This lecture describes an algorithm as a computational procedure to solve a problem, covers the random access machine and pointer models of computation, and introduces the document distance problem.