Everyone:

Next week, we will work on problems related to graphs and will focus on computing minimum spanning trees and topological sorting graphs. Understanding these concepts will be necessary to solve Challenge 17 and Challenge 18.

Reading

The readings for this week are:

  1. Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    • 15 Spanning Trees

    • 16 Directed Graphs

Quiz

Once you have done the readings, answer the following Reading 09 Quiz questions:

Submission

To submit you work, follow the same process outlined in Reading 00:

$ git checkout master                 # Make sure we are in master branch
$ git pull --rebase                   # Make sure we are up-to-date with GitHub

$ git checkout -b reading09           # Create reading09 branch and check it out

$ cd reading09                        # Go into reading09 folder
$ $EDITOR answers.json                # Edit your answers.json file

$ ../.scripts/check.py                # Check reading09 quiz
Checking reading09 quiz ...
     Q01 0.50
     Q02 1.00
     Q03 1.00
     Q04 0.50
   Score 3.00 / 3.00
  Status Success

$ git add answers.json                # Add answers.json to staging area
$ git commit -m "Reading 09: Done"    # Commit work

$ git push -u origin reading09        # Push branch to GitHub

Pull Request

Once you have committed your work and pushed it to GitHub, remember to create a pull request and assign it to the appropriate teaching assistant from the Reading 09 TA List.