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