CSC 344 Spring 2010 Calendar

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Date Assignment Reading Subject
Jan 25 Intro; define problem, efficiency, resource, problem size
Jan 27 chap. 1 Some example problems
Jan 29 HW1 2.1, 2.2 algorithm vs. program; ignoring constant factors
Feb 01 2.3, 2.4 O(*), θ(*), o(*), Ω(*), ω(*), etc.
Feb 03 2.5, exercises Some example problems
Feb 05 O(*), θ(*), o(*), Ω(*), ω(*), etc.
Feb 08 Last day to add classes
Feb 08 Not much: nobody had read the book or started on the homework
Feb 10 Snow Day
Feb 12 HW2 Practice with asymptotic analysis
Feb 15 HW1 due class presentations of HW1;
proof strategies for quantifiers
Feb 17 3.1, 3.2 more class presentations of HW1;
graph problems and representation
Feb 19 3.3, 3.4 Graph problems
Feb 22 Last day to drop classes
Feb 22 3.5, 3.6 Graph problems
Feb 24
Feb 26 Snow day
Mar 01 4.1-4.2 Greedy algorithms
Mar 03 HW2 due supposed to be class presentations of HW2, but nobody had finished it. In fact, nobody had finished HW1.
Mar 05 4.4-4.5 Greedy algorithms
Mar 08 4.6-4.7 Greedy algorithms
Mar 10 5.1, 5.2 Recursion and recurrence relations
Mar 12 5.3, 5.4 divide and conquer algorithms
Mar 13-21 Spring break
Mar 22 really chap. 2 discuss asymptotic analysis
Mar 24 HW3 5.5 4.1 discuss proofs of correctness
Mar 26 5.6; 4.2 still 4.1 continue proof of correctness
Mar 29 Last day to withdraw from classes
Mar 29 6.1, 6.2; 4.4 4.2 another problem amenable to a greedy algorithm
Mar 31 6.3, 6.4; 4.5 4.4 shortest paths in a graph
Apr 02 6.5; 4.6 4.4 Dijkstra's algorithm
Apr 05 6.8; 5.1-5.2 4.5-4.6 minimum spanning trees what is a tree?
Apr 07 6.9; 5.3-5.4; 5.1-5.2 4.5-4.6 divide and conquer minimum spanning trees
Apr 09 HW3 due 5.1-5.5 divide and conquer
Apr 12
Apr 14 6.1, 6.2, online examples dynamic programming: one parameter, one previous value
Apr 16 I'll be away at a conference
Apr 19 13.1, 13.5 6.3 dynamic programming: multiple previous values
Apr 21 6.4 dynamic programming: two parameters
Apr 23 13.6 6.5 dynamic programming: intervals and subranges
Apr 26 7.1-7.3 network flows and cuts
Apr 28 computability
Apr 30 HW4 computability Homework
May 03
May 05 8.1-8.3 computational complexity
May 07 class presentations of any remaining homework
May 10 HW4 due catch up and review for final exam
May 12 344 final exam, 8:00-10:00 AM