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I just read a fantastic book called Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, written by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Many educators associate the word algorithm with computer coding and rarely talk about algorithms in any other context. Because an algorithm is just a sequence of steps used to solve a problem, they actually have applications far beyond the world of computer science. The authors of Algorithms to Live By, point out that the word "algorithm" comes from the name of a Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, author of a ninth-century book of techniques for doing mathematics by hand. They go on to explain that algorithms are not confined to mathematics alone, and offer several examples, such as following a recipe or knitting.
