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It is really sad that people still start the discussion about algorithms by telling it as a sequence of actions or operations to accomplish a task. How to go to
by ankurdhama 10y ago
It is really sad that people still start the discussion about algorithms by telling it as a sequence of actions or operations to accomplish a task. How to go to airport is not an algorithm, how to cook food is not an algorithm.
- ponco 10y agoWhile I agree "following instructions" !== "algorithm", it does serve as a decent bit of context to people who are COMPLETELY unfamiliar with computing let alone programming.
- ankurdhama 10y agoIt provides them incorrect context, if you really want to provide context then start with long addition which everyone understands and tell them that it was the first algorithm they learned. Physical activities are not algorithms, algorithms are sequence of calculations on data and there are many many examples that people know about that they learned in elementary mathematics and that can serve as the proper context.