As a high school student, I heard the word "algorithm" for the first time I could recall in the movie "A Beautiful Mind". I had been playing with computers and

As a high school student, I heard the word "algorithm" for the first time I could recall in the movie "A Beautiful Mind". I had been playing with computers and writing small BASIC programs for years, but had never been formally introduced to the concept. I wasn't able to infer the meaning of the word from the film, and it wasn't until a couple years through my CS degree that I remembered the use of the word in the movie and the meaning of the scene in which it was used clicked for me.