Re: Tip: Finding scheduling conflicts

2017-08-31 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
David, On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 2:37 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I'm back to tell you about a wonderful thing called "the Internet" ;-) I > turns out that Sedgewick has a series of free courses at Coursera: > >

Re: Tip: Finding scheduling conflicts

2017-08-30 Thread David Adams via 4D_Tech
I'm back to tell you about a wonderful thing called "the Internet" ;-) I turns out that Sedgewick has a series of free courses at Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en=sedgewick What I linked to yesterday comes from Algorithms 1. I checked the syllabus and it looks like a

Re: Tip: Finding scheduling conflicts

2017-08-30 Thread David Adams via 4D_Tech
For those of you following along at home or checking the archives in days to come, I came across a really good lecture on interval trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QOYtSsTg4 It's presented by Robert Sedgewick. Yes, *that* Robert Sedgewick, the algorithms guy. Well, the algorithms guy for

Tip: Finding scheduling conflicts

2017-07-17 Thread David Adams via 4D_Tech
Ever had to do date math where you need to detect conflict schedules? Recently, I had to do some data analysis that involved checking for potential conflicts in a schedule, counting them, and figuring out how big the conflicts were. This isn't a live schedule, it's historical scheduling data used