What is an algorithm and why should you care? | Algorithms | Computer Science | Khan Academy

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Computer Science on Khan Academy: Learn select topics from computer science - algorithms (how we solve common problems in computer science and measure the efficiency of our solutions), cryptography (how we protect secret information), and information theory (how we encode and compress information).

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[spencersipes]

I love how my comp sci teachers always feel the need to give us videos explaining what an algorithm is. Even in 3000 level classes. This is a good video though. Thanks for making it.

[birtol]

Thank you Muhammed Alkhawarithm, you are the one who invented algorithm.

[dukeofyorkshire]

This is great. Many thanks for sharing such a great video. Great explanations of some of the key concepts.

[zacimusprime]

Well done you explained this pretty well 👍🏻it helped me 👍🏻

[govindagovindaji]

I feel really, really, dumb. I know less about algorithms than when I started, which is nothing. Now I feel like I know nothing minus 1.

[gauravnagar]

GREAT AND VERY HELPFUL VIDEO. THANK YOU

[VoicesNetworking]

Thank you for posting this very helpful information Khan Academy Computing. Now I understand the algorithm of what it takes to boost sales for my Ministry Short Story Writing. Again, thank you so much for this information. Very well done!

[ohs]

Please upload more videos on algorithms sequentially

[Gguy]

I wish we lived in a world where the future was built on seeing the world as ideas and concepts instead numbers and data

[khale-d]

What does it mean that an algorithm should be (1) Effective and (2) Exact?

[unelectedbureaucrat]

That example about the best routes for delivering packages could be done more efficiently if the guy had a map or was told where to go rather than an algorithm so seems to me algorithms aren't always the best answer!

[MrEdyhl]

when a human wants to win a checker game against a computer, he thinks that the computer is a human. If he can beat the computer, then that checker game must have a bug.
I also wonder what happen when the best programmed checker computer vs the best programmed checker computer

[PandorasBox]

why this subject has only 1 video and not like rest of khan academy tutorial?

[rajapurba]

Berarti apakah algoritma bisa berhubungan dengan teori kuantum untuk kedepannya senior?

[damnation]

maaaan, i just wish someday i will understand everything she said.

[ghefiraschannel]

How does FBI or police department pinpoint the exact location of their suspects? What kind of algorithm would that be?

[CodWii]

Algorithms is the reason Deep Blue beat Gary Kasporav in chess.

[ruzenshaikh]

if I learn Algorithm then which class mathematics I should have learn ?

[TheKerandia]

Türkçe altyazıyı kim yaptı abi yarısı yok söyle nasıl yapıldığını bende ekleyeyim bir kaç satır

[ecmswagger]

So, an algorithm is a computer program.