Assessment: Three reports (See: Reports and Grading )
Students
will use online software to solve problems using
algorithms studied
in class.
1.
The early history of algorithms and informatics
2.
Graphs and networks as models: Eulerian circuits and
Chinese postmen
3. Shortest paths
4.
The internet, search engines and web browsers
5. The Page Rank
algorithm
6. Cryptography and data security
7. Algorithms for privacy and authentication
8. Modeling and optimization
9. Visualisation
10. The Monte Carlo method
11. Can computers
learn?
12. Can computers think?