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Computer Science

Lecture 3: String Manipulation, Guess and Check, Approximations, Bisection

Course
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
Instructor
Dr. Ana Bell
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Recorded
Fall 2016
Level
Undergraduate
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In this lecture, Dr. Bell discusses string manipulation, guess-and-check algorithms, approximate solution methods, and bisection search.

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