{"id":99,"date":"2016-05-06T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-11-01T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:26:45","slug":"best-case-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/personal\/best-case-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"Best case scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every semester, every time I explain a problem where my students have to find the &#8220;best case&#8221; they simply say well the best case scenario is that I find the unique uncommon problem at the first try.<\/p>\n<p>Well yeah thats kind of right&#8230;but not when you are talking about CS problems.On CS the best case is normally the best worst case.<\/p>\n<p>For example while comparing Quick sort vs Shell sort they seem to be almost the same until you compare the worst case scenario, thats when you get some real difference.<\/p>\n<p>Basically on CS you always have to think that the best case scenario is the way to solve the worst possible case.<\/p>\n<p>As for my best case scenario I always say the same:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have to design your own best case scenario e.g \u00a0mine is : At home with Scarlet Johansson getting paid by doing nothing, I have enough money to do anything that I want, I can get all the food I want, play videogames or read all day&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every semester, every time I explain a problem where my students have to find the &#8220;best case&#8221; they simply say well the best case scenario is that I find the unique uncommon problem at the first try. Well yeah thats kind of right&#8230;but not when you are talking about CS problems.On CS the best case &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/personal\/best-case-scenario\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best case scenario<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}