• Understand the tools of the trade:
  • Data Structures that allow certain operations on the data to be done efficiently.

  • Algorithms that perform operations and maintain the data structure.

• Gain experience in using library packages
  • the buy-versus-build decision

• Understand performance:
  • Big O

  • How to analyze a problem, design a solution, and estimate the performance.

  • How to analyze an existing design or program, spot the performance problems, and fix them.

• Gain experience in other programming paradigms:
  • Lisp
  • MapReduce
  • Hadoop and parallel data-intensive programming

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