<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(234,234,234);font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:20px 0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:1218px;width:1116.953125px"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 30px 0px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;max-width:100%"><h1 class="" style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:36px;font-size:22px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://sudoroom.org/yasnac-lattice-path-algorithm-night/">https://sudoroom.org/yasnac-lattice-path-algorithm-night/</a><br></h1><div><br></div><h1 class="" style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:36px;font-size:22px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Yasnac Lattice Path Algorithm Night!</h1></div></div></div><div id="main" class="" style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:20px;font-size:16px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:40px 0px 10px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:1218px;width:1116.953125px"><div id="primary" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;width:687.765625px"><div id="content" class="" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 10px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><img class="" src="https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/robot_arm.png" alt="robot_arm" width="500" height="450" style="max-width: 98%; height: auto; vertical-align: top; margin: 6px auto 0px; display: block;">Robot starts at the top!<h2 style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Premise</h2><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We were inspired by the <strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Algorithm Meetup</strong> featured this week on <a href="https://github.com/AlgorithmsMeetup/RobotPaths" target="_blank" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(170,0,0);text-decoration:none">Robot Paths</a> in a Lattice Graph!</p><blockquote style="border-width:1px 1px 1px 3px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(234,234,234) rgb(234,234,234) rgb(234,234,234) rgb(170,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:20px;vertical-align:baseline;quotes:''"><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Imagine an n by m grid with a robot in the upper left square. If the robot can only move right or down, how many different paths are there for the robot to get to the bottom right corner?</span></p></blockquote><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </p><a href="https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/robot_arm2.png" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(170,0,0);text-decoration:none"><img class="" src="https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/robot_arm2.png" alt="robot_arm2" width="300" height="270" style="max-width: 98%; height: auto; vertical-align: top; margin: 3.59375px auto 0px; border: 0px; display: block;"></a>and then the robot needs to move to the bottom!<p style="border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l-align:baseline;color:rgb(170,0,0);text-decoration:none">Djikstra’s Algorithm</a></li><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinding#Algorithms_used_in_pathfinding" target="_blank" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(170,0,0);text-decoration:none">Algorithms used in Pathfinding</a> (including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm" target="_blank" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(170,0,0);text-decoration:none">A* search algorithm</a>)</li></ul><h2 style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Learning</h2><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The learning was very social and using an entire whiteboard was really fun. It was especially important to get people away from their computers, where hidden dangers like web surfing and social networks lurked. It was also a great way to get to know other people, and create and draw and visualize complex problems.</p><h2 style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ending Poem</h2><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We’d had the idea to end each session with a poem, which was more challenging than we thought.</p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">However, it is a little useful to write a short piece to assess what you’ve learned that night.</p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Start out by learning from examples,</em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Build upon the basics and progress slowly, absorbing all,</em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Surround yourself with smart people,</em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Begin with simple recursion problems, </em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Tweak the code,</em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">then dip your toes into the advanced theory like djikstra </em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Get the hell away from a computer</em></p><p style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:24px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Learning is life!</em></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>=============================</div><div><br></div><div>Romy Ilano</div><div><a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com" target="_blank">romy@snowyla.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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