How to Solve Problems
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01. Course Overview
02. About this Lesson
03. How to Solve Problems
04. Days Between Dates
05. Attempting the Problem [workspace]
06. First Step
07. Understanding a Problem
08. The First Rule
09. What Are the Inputs
10. How Are Inputs Represented
11. What Are the Outputs
12. Obey the Rules
13. Next Step
14. The Expected Output
15. Take the Next Step
16. Try an Example
17. Harder Example
18. Algorithm Pseudocode
19. Should We Implement It
20. Different Approach
21. Simple Mechanical Algorithm
22. Don't Optimize Prematurely
23. What Should We Write First
24. Define Simple nextDay
25. Making Progress Is Good
26. What Should We Do Next
27. Define daysBetweenDates
28. Step One Pseudocode
29. Step Two Helper Function
30. Step Three daysBetweenDates
31. Test for Valid Inputs
32. Real World Problem
33. Best Strategy
34. Completing the Problem
35. Finish daysBetweenDates
36. Solution Step I
37. Solution Step II
38. Solution Step III
39. Solution Step IV
40. Conclusion
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