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Section 03: Monday & Wednesday, 2:30pm – 3:45pm, Sherman Hall 145

Adam's office hours: Monday 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Wednesday 4:00pm – 5:00pm, ITE 341


Grading

Your grade is based on 6 programming projects, 6 homework assignments, 2 in-class exams and the final exam. The points are distributed as follows:

points # Total
Project 0 3 1 3
Project 1-5 7 5 35
Homework 1-6 2 6 12
Exam 1 & 2 15 2 30
Final Exam 20 1 20
Total: 100

Your final letter grade is based on the standard formula:

0 ≤ F < 60 ≤ D < 70 ≤ C < 80 ≤= B < 90 ≤ A ≤ 100.

These levels may be adjusted slightly in your favor, but grades will not be “curved” in the conventional sense.

Your grade is given for timely work done during the semester; incomplete grades will only be given for medical illness or other such dire circumstances.


Schedule

Note that the due dates for the projects and the dates of the exams are already set. See the "Schedule" tab under the course-wide home page. Please plan your schedules accordingly. Makeup exams will be given only under the most dire circumstances (almost never).


Lecture Schedule

Date Topic Reading Lecture Notes
1: Wed 08/29 Introduction  
2: Wed 09/05 Memory & Processes Chap 1 & 2
3: Mon 09/10 Linked Lists vs Arrays 3.1 - 3.2 LinkedList.h LinkedList.cpp
4: Wed 09/12 Project 1; Circular Queues 3.4  
5: Mon 09/17 Running Times Chapter 4
6: Wed 09/19 STL Stacks & Queues Chapter 5, 6
7: Mon 09/24 more Stacks & Queues, Pointers  
8: Wed 09/26 Project 2 10.1  
9: Mon 10/01 Trees Chapter 7
10: Wed 10/03 Binary Search Trees, Project 2  
11: Mon 10/08 AVL Trees 10.2
12: Wed 10/10 Midterm 1 Review    Sample Midterm
13: Mon 10/15 Midterm Exam 1    
14: Wed 10/17 Project 3    
15: Mon 10/22 AVL Trees, Splay Trees 10.3
16: Wed 10/24 Splay Trees, Red-Black Trees 10.5
17: Mon 10/29 Red-Black Trees    
18: Wed 10/31 Project 4    
19: Mon 11/05 Heaps Chapter 8
20: Wed 11/07 More Heaps  
21: Mon 11/12 Hash Tables 9.1-9.2
22: Wed 11/14 Hash Tables    
23: Mon 11/19 Midterm 2 Review    Sample Midterm
24: Wed 11/21 Exam 2    
Thu 11/22 Thanksgiving    
25: Mon 11/26 Project 5    
26: Wed 11/28 Sorting 11.1-11.3
27: Mon 12/03 More Sorting,
Average Running Time
 
28: Wed 12/05 Disjoint Sets 11.4
29: Mon 12/10 Final Exam Review  
Thu 12/13 Common Final Exam
3:30pm – @5:30pm
  Sample Final