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I once watched all these lectures, took notes and published summaries of the lectures on my blog:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/summary-of-mit-introduction-to-...

As someone who generally avoids AV content, thank you.

I highly recommend this course https://class.coursera.org/algo-2012-002/class/index

Check out E.Demaine's other classes. Video footage is fresher and of higher res. Subjects are awesome too.

http://erikdemaine.org/classes/ -- http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/ -- http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/

That's MIT 2005. Here's their 2008 algorithms course:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

The 2008 edition doesn't seem to have any video lectures or am I missing something?

My bad. I watched the first 2005 lecture on YouTube last week and then noticed 2008 when I went to the Open Courseware page. Hadn't quite made it to lecture 2 yet. Here's Stanford's course & videos on Coursera:

https://class.coursera.org/algo-2012-002/class/index

I have watched most of these as well. I took a course last semester at Auburn University that was based off this one and is nearly identical, we even used the same book listed on the site, written by these guys at MIT. They literally wrote the book on the subject.

6.046 is not an introductory algorithm course. 6.006 is. 6.46 is more advanced algorithms.

I am hoping they would offer this course again via the MITx/edX platform later this year

Very good material and the new website with side by side presentation is cool!

what is the prerequisite course for this course, I couldnt understand anything ...

I didn't watch the videos, but I have a copy of the book they're using. From the preface:

* You should have some programming experience. In particular, you should understand recursive procedures and simple data structures such as arrays and linked lists.

* You should have some facility with proofs by mathematical induction. A few portions of the book rely on some knowledge of elementary calculus.

its definitely point two where I am completely blank, but I feel this is a bit too much of a (prerequisite) barrier, for an introductory course!

write,write,write....say something really fast...write,write,write

I need the 'for dummies' version

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