Depth First Search… or Searching for Atlantis.

This is going to be a short one. Because the analogy here is much more intuitive and can more easily be applied to a range of circumstances… Imagine you’re on a yacht near the Bimini Islands searching for The Lost City of Atlantis. You have “reliable” info that the city may be somewhere in the … Read moreDepth First Search… or Searching for Atlantis.

Breadth First Search… or Unclogging The Bathtub

Encouraged by Flatiron instructor Jonathan Foster to make a blog post out of a Slack comment where I attempted to explain “Breadth First Search” in plain English, I thought it was time to finally kick off this blog about Better Heuristics for Understanding Code. If you don’t know what breadth first search is, you will … Read moreBreadth First Search… or Unclogging The Bathtub