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Fall 2011 EECS 281 (First Half)
Syllabus and Lecture Notes
| Week 1 |
Introduction, Algorithm Analysis Chs. 1 and 3 |
| Tue 9/6 |
Introduction: representation and abstraction, algorithmic patterns; binary search, simple back-of-the-envelope analysis (download slide show) |
| Thu 9/8 PA1 Assigned |
Algorithm Analysis: operation count (download slide show) |
| Discussion Week 1 | Standard I/O and iostream, getopt(), make, gdb, unit testing |
| Week 2 |
Foundational Data Structures and Basic Abstract Data Types Chs. 3 and 10 |
| Tue 9/13 HW1 Assigned |
Algorithm Analysis: asymptotic analysis, empirical evaluation;
Arrays (download slide show) |
| Thu 9/15 |
Linked-list, Stacks and Queues, PA1 walkthrough (download slide show) |
| Discussion Week 2 |
Pointer refresher, references, valgrind;
Forward class declaration, inheritance, polymorphism,
virtual function; Constructor and destructor |
| Week 3 |
Hashing, Recursion and Recurrence Relations,
Trees, Binary Search Trees Chs. 11 and 4 Demo: BST |
| Tue 9/20 |
Unsorted Dictionary: Hashing; Sorted Dictionary: Binary Search; Recurrence Relations (download slide show) |
| Thu 9/22 PA1 Due PA2 Assigned |
Tree terminology, tree traversal, Binary Search Trees (BST) (download slide show) |
| Discussion Week 3 | Floating-point numbers, hashing, recurrence relations, BST |
| Week 4 |
Range and Multidimensional Searches Ch. 12 Optional reading: Bentley, "Multidimensional Binary Search Trees Used for Associative Searching," CACM, 18(9):509-517, Sept. 1975. |
| Tue 9/27 HW1 Due HW2 Assigned |
Range search, multidimensional search: k-d trees (download slide show) |
| Thu 9/29 | BSP, nearest-neighbor search, PA2 walkthrough (no new slides) |
| Discussion Week 4 | Range and multidimensional searches |
| Week 5 |
Heaps, Tries, Balanced Search Trees Ch. 6 except Section 6.4 Demoes: AVL trees 2-3 trees 2-3-4 trees |
| Tue 10/4 |
Priority Queue and Heaps;
Tries; Huffman encoding;
AVL trees (download slide show) |
| Thu 10/6 | Multi-way trees (download slide show) |
| Discussion Week 5 | Heap, Huffman coding, and AVL trees |
| Week 6 |
Binary-tree Representations of Multi-way Trees Ch. 13 Demoes: Red-black trees Red-black trees AA trees |
| Tue 10/11 | Red-black trees |
| Thu 10/13 PA2 Due | AA trees, Treaps |
| Discussion Week 6 | Multi-way trees and their binary-tree representations |
| Week 7 | Midterm Exam |
| Tue 10/18 |
Fall Break NO CLASS |
| Wed, 10/19 6-8 pm in Chesebrough Auditorium HW2 Due | Midterm Review |
| Thu 10/20 6-8 pm in various rooms in CSE and DOW |
Midterm Exam No class during lecture times, I'll be in my office for extra office hours instead. Exam rooms:
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| Discussion Week 7 |
NO REGULARLY SCHEDULED DISCUSSION Midterm Review on Wed 6-8 pm instead |