Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.
--Steven S. Skiena
The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.
--Steve McConnell
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--Donald Knuth
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
--Dalai Lama XIV