[keporahg]

I've been meaning to get around to reading those notes. A friend of mine also told me about this course: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/392/ - taught by Steven Skiena (author of The Algorithm Design Manual).

I wish my university had more courses like this, but for now I'll have to learn from these.

I never really learned anything about pure algorithms in high school, but it seems like quite a bit of people in my program covered the basics at their school. I want to learn more about this style of programming so that I can compete on sites like TopCoder, but I never know where to start. I'm guessing these notes are good, but now I just need to find the time to study the material.