Textbook

This course will involve reading assignments and homework exercises from the textbook Fundamentals of Sequential and Parallel Algorithms by Kenneth Berman and Jerome Paul. This book is required, and it's the sort of book you'll probably want to keep to refer to in subsequent courses and software projects. For any of you who are especially interested in this subject, I recommend a more advanced book, Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronald L. Rivest. I may also give out other reading assignments by email or in journals.

I hope to cover about three quarters of the Berman-Paul book: about 600 pages, so you need to read 10-15 pages per lecture, on average. Make time in your weekly schedule for this!