CSC 343 Calendar

Fall 2013

All dates for topics and homeworks are rough predictions; if we actually take more or less time on a topic than I've predicted, the schedule will shift accordingly.

Date Assignment Reading Subject
Aug 28 HW1 Introduction, administrivia, math pre-test, why are we studying this stuff? What's a "good" program? Exploring problems
Aug 30 Shaffer 1, CLRS 1,
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what's an algorithm? What's a data structure? Tradeoffs, design patterns, problems vs. algorithms vs. programs; instances, constraints
Sep 02 Labor day; no classes
Sep 04 Shaffer 2-2.5 Mathematical preliminaries
Sep 06 Shaffer 2.6-2.7 Proof techniques, particularly induction
Sep 09 Shaffer 3-3.4 Asymptotic analysis of algorithms
Sep 10 Last day to add classes
Sep 11 CLRS 3 O(), θ(), Ω() notation
Sep 13 Shaffer 3.5-3.11 More issues of algorithm analysis
Sep 16 CLRS 2 Case studies in algorithm analysis; pseudocode, proofs of correctness, etc.
Sep 18 HW2 Shaffer 4.1, on-line materials Lists and their ADT's; implementations
Sep 20 CLRS 10.2; handout The Visitor pattern; traversing a list; discuss HW1
Sep 23 HW1 due Student presentations
Sep 25 Student presentations
Sep 25 Last day to drop classes, change grading option, switch sections, add independent study
Sep 27 Student presentations
Sep 30 Shaffer 4.2-4.4, CLRS 10.1 Stacks, queues, and dictionaries
Oct 02 on-line materials Stacks, queues, and dictionaries
Oct 04 Shaffer 5-5.3, CLRS 10.4 Binary trees
Oct 07 Different implementations; Visitors for binary trees
Oct 09 Shaffer 5.4, CLRS 12 Binary search trees
Oct 11 I'm out of town; work on homework
Oct 14 Binary search trees; discuss HW2
Oct 16 HW2 due Student presentations
Oct 18 HW3 Student presentations
Oct 21 Student presentations
Oct 23 Shaffer 5.5, CLRS 6 Heaps and heapsort
Oct 25 Shaffer 5.6 An application: Huffman coding
Oct 28 CLRS 13-13.3 Red-black trees
Oct 30 CLRS 13.4 Deletion in red-black trees
Oct 30 Last day to withdraw from classes
Nov 01 C++ help: how to manage header files, write classes, get polymorphic behavior, declare and use pointer and reference variables, etc.
Nov 04 Discuss homework (especially visitors)
Nov 06 HW3 due Student presentations
Nov 08 HW4 Student presentations
Nov 11 Student presentations
Nov 13 Student presentations
Nov 15 I'm away at a conference
Nov 18 CLRS 13-13.3 Red-black trees
Nov 20 CLRS 13.4 Deletion in red-black trees
Nov 22 Shaffer 6, 8 Non-binary trees; file I/O
Nov 25 Shaffer 8 Files and external sorting; start on hashing
Nov 27 Thanksgiving: no classes
Nov 29 Thanksgiving: no classes
Dec 02 Shaffer 9.1-9.4, on-line materials, CLRS 11 Hashing
Dec 04 Shaffer 10.1-10.4 Indexing; 2-3-trees; discuss homework
Dec 06 HW4 due Student presentations
Dec 09 Student presentations
Dec 11 Student presentations
Dec 18 CSC 343 Final Exam, 10:30-12:30

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Stephen Bloch / sbloch@adelphi.edu