Unit 1: Motivation & Outline

This unit covers:

• why this module is needed
• the outline of the module

Material

• slides

• lecture notes

• Lamp Lighter Game

• Video 1 · transcript (2026-10-13, 12:14): Motivation
  

Further reading and sources

A similar agenda is laid out in this book:

• J. Hromkovic: Algorithmics for Hard Problems

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