Algorithms

(examples in Python unless otherwise noted)
a series of steps that can be followed to solve a problem
examples:
- palindrome - same forwards and backwards
  - reverse order of string, make both all lower or upper, remove any punctuation, and see if two strings match
- FizzBuzz - print list of numbers, but sub 'Fizz' for multiples of 3, 'Buzz' for multiples of 5, and 'FizzBuzz' for multiples of 3 and 5
  - use modulo % with conditionals
- anagram - two words with all the same letters
  - match their cases,sort both words alphabetically, then see if match
  - Python has a built in function sorted() that will alphabetize for you
- count number of times each character occurs in a string
  - ```
  def count_characters(string):
    count_dict = {}
    for c in string:
    if c in count_dict:
        count_dict[c] += 1
    else:
        count_dict[c] = 1
  print(count_dict)
```
  - each key will be a character and each value will be the number of times it occurred in the string

Searching
Recursion