ALGORITHM

We’ve all heard of Big(O). It’s something most of us learn in college and promptly forget. We also know it’s something that Top Coders and Googlers are good at and many of us would like to be good at it too! I can relate – I find many algorithms fascinating and many more intimidating. And for a long time I struggled to get my head around the concept of Big(O). I knew what it was – vaguely – but I had no deep understanding – no intuition for it at all. And I knew that it was important in telling me which algorithms were good and which weren’t. If you can relate to that then this article is for you – you will be able to understand Big(O) and have the beginnings of an intuition about it.