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I'm not sure what the "right answer" would be, but here's my definition:
An Algorithmic Solution is any solution to a problem that has a specific set of steps (some of which are usually repeated).
In computer terms, it's basically letting a program find the answer instead of doing it by hand.
An Algorithmic Solution is any solution to a problem that has a specific set of steps (some of which are usually repeated).
In computer terms, it's basically letting a program find the answer instead of doing it by hand.
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Algorithm = A process or set of rules for calculation or problem-solving, esp. in computing." Concise Oxford Dictionary.
I have NEVER heard it used for some specific form of computing or methodology. I suspect it is just a general description. They are suggesting a solution that shows the steps or successive rules needed to achieve it.
In functional programming, it would be logical rules to be used in the 'functions'.
In declaritive programming in is much the same but applied to the 'side effects' that are inevitable.
In OO computing, it nearly always describes the steps required within a 'method'. At the higher levels, the use cases are somewhat 'Actor' dependant, and each one may have different rules.
You can write algoithms using a number of logic languages, usually always based on Predicate Calculus'.
[tab]'Z' a predicate calculus based logic language
[tab] 'OCL' UML's formal language for this (ghastly unreadable - Ugh)
[tab] 'Activity Diagrams' very often work very well. NOT activity diagrams with swimlanes, as you draw for business processes, but 'Activity Diagrams' that apply a set of logic just to one method.
Avoid activity diagrams with swim lanes or sequence diagrams.
I suspect you are being asked for an answer in general but described in a precise form that well fits any form of predicate calculus description. Just the sequential logic without any detail of how it is going to be programmed.
Gil
I have NEVER heard it used for some specific form of computing or methodology. I suspect it is just a general description. They are suggesting a solution that shows the steps or successive rules needed to achieve it.
In functional programming, it would be logical rules to be used in the 'functions'.
In declaritive programming in is much the same but applied to the 'side effects' that are inevitable.
In OO computing, it nearly always describes the steps required within a 'method'. At the higher levels, the use cases are somewhat 'Actor' dependant, and each one may have different rules.
You can write algoithms using a number of logic languages, usually always based on Predicate Calculus'.
[tab]'Z' a predicate calculus based logic language
[tab] 'OCL' UML's formal language for this (ghastly unreadable - Ugh)
[tab] 'Activity Diagrams' very often work very well. NOT activity diagrams with swimlanes, as you draw for business processes, but 'Activity Diagrams' that apply a set of logic just to one method.
Avoid activity diagrams with swim lanes or sequence diagrams.
I suspect you are being asked for an answer in general but described in a precise form that well fits any form of predicate calculus description. Just the sequential logic without any detail of how it is going to be programmed.
Gil
The OP is continuing to log in (as recently as today), so maybe they haven't found what they're looking for yet.
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All right. An "Algorithmic solution" is basically the same thing as an "algorithm", with the added meaning that it is an algorithm that actually solves the problem at hand. As I said, it sounds like the sort of thing that a professor would put in a problem: "such and such is the problem. Come up with an algorithmic solution to the problem and explain the steps." That sort of thing. So, I have a little trouble believing that sobana is not looking for help on homework...
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