While waiting: quotes

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While waiting quotes

• It is wrong to think that the task of physics is
  to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what
  we say about nature. - N. Bohr
• There is a division in the student population...
  between those who go to college to learn and
  those who go to college to earn a diploma. - J.
  Blau (letter to the editor, Chronicle of Higher
  Education, May 24, 2002)
• The most likely way for the world to be
  destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
  That's where we come in we're computer
  professionals. We cause accidents. - N.
  Borenstein
• Simplicity and flexibility will trump
  optimization and power in a world where
  connectivity is the key. - A. Bosworth
  (paraphrased by David Bank in Breaking Windows,
  page 203)
• It is important that students bring a certain
  ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their
  studies they are not here to worship what is
  known, but to question it. - J. Bronowski
• Good judgment comes from experience experience
  comes from bad judgment. - F. Brooks

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COS 79 (hex) - Oct C, 7D5

• Recursion From the back seat, Is the list of
  recursive lectures growing smaller?
• Stefan Brandle

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Agenda

• Read Lab 10 for tomorrows lab.
• Do prelab, inlabs 2-3, postlab 1.
• Read Ch. 5.1 (pp. 242-250) for Friday.
• Review linked list implementation code
• Recursion with singly-linked lists

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Review Linked List Example Code

• Display some functions
• Ask for comments
• Work on fixing code

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Recursion w/ Singly-Linked Lists

• The idea of a helper function
• E.g., insert( ) has insertSub( ) as a helper.
• Work through examples from lab book

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Intro to Backtracking (if have time)

• Introduce idea of backtracking
• Introduce 8-queens