Talk:Naïve algorithm

This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles

Computer science

This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Computer science related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Computer scienceWikipedia:WikiProject Computer scienceTemplate:WikiProject Computer scienceComputer science articles

Things you can help WikiProject Computer science with:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
- Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet
Cleanup :
- Computer science articles needing attention
- Computer science articles needing expert attention
Copyedit :
- Computing
Expand :
- Computer science
Infobox :
- Computer science articles without infoboxes
Maintain :
- Timeline of computing 2020–present
Photo :
- Find pictures for the biographies of computer scientists (see List of computer scientists)
- Computing articles needing images
Stubs :
- Computer science stubs
Unreferenced :
- WikiProject Computer science/Unreferenced BLPs
Project-related :
- Tag all relevant articles in Category:Computer science and sub-categories with {{WikiProject Computer science}}

Great nontechnical naive algorithm example - looking up a word in a dictionary.[edit]

Jon Skeet on Stack Overflow has a superb example involving looking up a word in a dictionary: "The naive implementation is to start at the very beginning, and look at the first word. Oh, that's not the word we're looking for - look at the next one, etc."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257331/whats-the-best-example-of-a-naive-implementation/257349#257349

Though I would not call that a naive "implementation".

Is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic compatible with Wikipedia's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CCAS3U)? Stack Overflow content is licensed under the former. If I knew for sure that they were compatible I would have chucked the example in right away. I've asked Mr Skeet whether he wants to release it under CCAS3U already. He may answer here or fakemail@slopsbox.com (or he might edit it into the article himself. Heh.)

Primary key (talk) 03:28, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]