This is a collection of short (4 - 8 hours) courses I taught/teach at Imperial as part of the optional, first year Advanced Programming Lectures.

competitive-programming is a gentle introduction to competitive programming, covering a few of the most basic algorithms and implementations tips. This can serve as a first stage of preparation for some coding interviews.

performance-aware-programming is a short teaser course highlighting some of the concepts we need to be aware of when optimising the performance of our programs.

Both courses come with Java based examples and with a bit of python/bash/gnuplot scripting (where needed).