“Mom, how long would it take a supercomputer running at 10^15 additions per second to calculate the 1000th Fibonacci number?”
Simon has learned this problem from the new course he is following on Brilliant.org: Computer Science Algorithms. Simon worked it out on an A3 sketch book sheet and got the answer correct: it would take longer than the age of the Universe!
Simon has already finished the Computer Science Fundamentals course! It has been Simon’s idea to take up the courses on Brilliant.org again and he has been working independently, driven entirely by his intrinsic motivation.
The course has also inspired Simon to work on a very large scale project: record a series of tutorials where he explains all the best known sorting algorithms and comes up with the Python code for them on his RaspberryPi!
Geeks out of the box 