Computer Science City College of New York
  CSc21200 Section FG Data Structures, Fall 2016
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 Feng  HU
M,W        04:00-05:40PM
Shepard SH 75
M/W:  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
NAC 8/210
fhu@gradcenter.cuny.edu
  

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Course Objectives

This course teaches the basic techniques to orgranize data in running programs.  You will know about well-known data structures as listed in the Quick Syllabus. You will be able to
(1) implement these structures as classes in C++;
(2) determine which structures are appropriate in various situations;
(3) confidently learn new structures beyond what are presented in this class. 
You will also learn part of object-oriented programming and software development methodology.
 
Quick Syllabus
To become a Data Structures Expert 
start by learning...
  • Precondition/Postcondition specifications 
  • Time analysis techniques 
  • Container classes 
  • Pointers and dynamic arrays 
  • Linked lists 
  • Templates and iterators 
  • Stacks 
  • Queues 
  • Recursive thinking 
  • Trees 
  • Sorting and searching techniques
  •  Graphs
    		•

    Textbook and References

    Textbook: Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++,  Fourth Edition, by Michael Main and Walter Savitch , Addison Wesley, softcover.

    Supplements:  The Code for the Book and the Corrections for the Text will be useful and can be found by clicking here.

    References: Lots of good sample codes are found in CSc102's C++ How to Program by Dietel & Dietel, 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall 2001. This course involves some of C++ language details that could be found in this book.

    Prerequisites

    CSc103 (Introduction to Computing to CS and CpE Majors) and CSc104 (Discrete Mathematical Structure I).  You should feel confident in your ability to design and implement simple programs using arrays and functions. As a rough guideline, all the materials before Chapter 5 (Pointers and Strings) of C++ How to Program by Dietel & Dietel are assumed to be understood. You should be familiar with some programming environment--either a PC or a Unix system.

    Schedule

    The following schedule is based on Fall 2016 academic calendar:

    Date Planned Lecture Topics Read/Assign/Exam
    Aug 29 (M)
    Aug 31 (W)    		 Lecture 1. Introduction & Software Development
    Lecture 2. ADT & C++ Classes  (code) 
    		Ch. 1
    Ch 2.1-2.3;  Assignment 1
    Sep 05 (M )
    Sep 07 (W) 
    		 Labor Day; college is closed - no class!
    Lecture 3. More Classes and Operator Overloading 
    Ch 2.4-2.5 
    Sep 12 (M)
    Sep 14 (W)     		 Lecture 4/5. Container Classes (code)
    Lecture 6. Pointers and Dynamic Arrays (I)  
    		Ch 3, Assignment 2
    Ch 4.1 - 4.2
    Sep 19 (M)
    Sep 21 (W)    		 Lecture 7. Pointers and Dynamic Arrays (II) (point code with pointers)
    Lecture 8. Dynamic Classes and the Big Three (code)       		Ch. 4.2 - 4.5

    Assignment 3
    Sep 26 (M)
    Sep 28 (W)    		 Exam Review 1    
    First Exam (Chapters 1-4)

    Oct 06 (T)
    Oct 05 (W)     		 Lecture 10. Building &Using the Linked List Toolkit  (code)  & Exam 1 Discussions 
    Lecture 9.  Linked Lists (code)     		Ch. 5.3 - 5.5, Assignment 4
    Ch. 5.1-5.2
    Oct 10 (M)
    Oct 12 (W)     		 Columbus Day: college is closed - no class!
    No class scheduled
    Oct 17 (M)
    Oct 19 (W)     		 Lecture 11. Software Development using Templates and Iterators (code: bag4&&5 , node2)
    Lecture 11a. Software Development using Templates and Iterators (cont.)      		Ch. 6 
    Oct 24 (M)
    Oct 26 (W)     		 Lecture 12. Stacks(code) and Queues (code)   
    Lecture 13. Introduction to Recursion     		Ch. 7, Ch. 8
    Ch. 9.1,  Assignment 5
    Oct 31 (M)
    Nov 02 (W)
    		Lecture 14. Using and Reasoning about Recursion 
    Exam Review 2       		Ch. 9.2 - 9.3
    Nov 07 (M)
    Nov 09 (W)     		 Second Exam (Chapters 5-9)
    Lecture 15. Trees and Traversals (code)  
    Ch. 10.1-10.4
    Nov 14 (M)
    Nov 16 (W)     		 Lecture 16. Binary Search Trees and the Bag Class with a BST
    Lecture 17. B-Trees and Set Class(code) Exam 2 Discussions (code: P1 P2)      		 Ch. 10.5, Assignment 6
    Ch. 11.2
    Nov 21 (M)
    Nov 23 (W)
    		Lecture 18. Heaps and Priority Queue ; Time Analysis of Trees
    Lecture 19. Serial Searching and Binary Searching      		Ch. 11.1, 11.3
    Ch. 12.1-12.3
    Nov 28 (M)
    Nov 30 (W)
    		 Lecture 20. Hashing
    Lecture 21. Quadratic Sorting
    		 Ch. 12.4
    Ch. 13.1
    Dec 05 (M)
    Dec 07 (W)
    		Lecture 22. Recursive Sorting , Heapsort & the STL Quicksort (code)
    Lecture 23. Graph Basics;   Exam Review 3     		Ch. 13.2-13.4
    Ch. 15
    Dec 12 (M)
    Dec 14 (W)    		 Third Exam (mainly Ch 10-13, 15) 
    (Optional) Exam 3 Office Hour (NAC 8/210, 3pm-6pm)


    Assignments and Grading

    See syllabus above for the tentative timetable for a schedule. There will be six to seven programming assignments distributed roughly every two weeks (counted roughly 30% of your final grade).  Several in-class small quizzes will add up to 10 % of your final grade. There will be three in-class exams (60% of your final grade). Dates of these exams will be determined in due times and announced beforehand.

    Policies:  Students may discuss ideas together. But since each student get credits for his or her submissions, all actual program code and written answers must be done individually by each student, and must not be shared.

    Communications: I would like the course to run smoothly and enjoyably. Feel free to let me know what you find good and interesting about the course. Let me know as soon as possible about the reverse. You may see me in my office during my hours or send me messages by e-mail.

    Computing Facilities

    The language used for this class is ANSI Standard C++ as supported by today's available compilers. Variety of PC based (both Windows and Linux) C++ compilers are available, also publicly accessible at our Student Computer Labs.

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