You can take a problem that might be relatively intuitive to solve but when you scale this thing up as is increasingly the case in the web, in large data systems, and so forth, you actually have to now think smart, you actually have to think efficiently and you have to solve this problem effectively.

你可以把一个问题用比较直观的方法解决,但如果你把此类问题的数量增大,正如越来越多的互联网，和大规模数据系统中出现的问题等等,你应该考虑怎样才能更简便，怎样才能更高效,你应该用行之有效的方法处理问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In Week 2 we'll look at things like cryptography and functions and the tools that by which you begin to assemble solutions to problems; in Week 3 we'll introduce what are generally ; known as algorithms and data structures; mechanisms by which you can solve problems more efficiently, effectively.

第2周,我们学习加密技术及其功能,还会学到一些操作工具,通过这些工具的使用来收集解决问题的办法,第3周,我们将介绍;,算法和数据结构,以及可以更有效地解决问题的机制。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选