Probably no real fix for that. In algorithms if you only taught the best algo for a particular problem, you'd lose everyone on the first day, and miss out on a

Probably no real fix for that. In algorithms if you only taught the best algo for a particular problem, you'd lose everyone on the first day, and miss out on a lot of analysis/teaching opportunities. Remember that algorithms study isn't just about speed, it's actually about _correctness_ first. Besides, it's pretty rare for someone to need to write their own sorting algorithm anyway, in production. And if they do but they're so addled they do it from memory and randomly pick bubblesort, hey at least it's fairly easy to be correct.