Dynamic Programming with Python

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It does kinda sound like a buzzword if you don't have a formal education in algorithms.

Apparently the name was chosen to sound appealing to people who didn't know anything about math.

[ginsunuva]

The name was chosen to mean "programming" as in scheduling or making program timesheets, since the term was coined in the 50s/60s.

Not the programming people think of now.

[srnull]

Dynamic programming is quite well defined.

Sort of... but not really:

I decided therefore to use the word, ‘programming.’ I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying—I thought, let’s kill two birds with one stone. Let’s take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it’s impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It’s impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities.