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Saint Louis University

Computer Science 180
Data Structures

Michael Goldwasser

Fall 2008

Dept. of Math & Computer Science


SCHEDULE

Please note that the schedule for future classes is tentative.

Also note: For each lecture, we denote both a topic as well as the associated reading in the textbook. The live link on the 'topic' leads to a page of my personal notes for that lecture. Those personal notes are not nearly as complete or polished as the associated readings from the text. In truth, they exist mostly to provide a brief outline of the day's lecture. Students are expected to read the associated sections of the text. In cases where my notes include material which is not explicitly in the text, I will add the word "notes" to the explicit reading list.

Week Day Topic Reading
Aug 25-Aug 29 Mon Introduction, Course Overview syllabus
Wed Beginning of Transition to C++ our Transition Guide
Chapter P of text
Thur Transition Guide (continued);
Hands-on day with compiling/execution
Transition Guide
Ch. P.1 of text
Fri Transition: I/O streams Transition Guide
Ch. P.9 of text
Sep 1-Sep 5 Mon No Class: Labor Day
Wed Transition: Data Types, Control Structures Transition Guide
Ch. P.3, P.4 of text
Thur Transition: Class Definitions Transition Guide
Ch. 1.3 of text
Fri Transition: Operator Overloading Transition Guide
Ch. 1.3 of text
Sep 8-Sep 12 Mon Transition: C++ Object Model
(value variables and assignment semantics)
Transition Guide
Ch. P.5, P.6 of text
Wed Transition: C++ Object Model
(reference variables)
objectdemo
Transition Guide
Ch. P.5, P.6 of text
Thur Transition: C++ Object Model
(pointers)
objectdemo
Transition Guide
Ch. P.5, P.6 of text
Fri Transition: Dynamic Memory Management, Fraction Case Study Transition Guide
Sep 15-Sep 19 Mon Overview of Container Classes; C++ arrays Ch. P.7
Wed Vector class interface; templates Ch. 4.1
Thur Vector class (implementation) Ch. 4.3
Fri Vector class (implementation) Ch. 4.3
Sep 22-Sep 26 Mon Housekeeping functions (motivation) Ch. 4.4
Wed Housekeeping functions (implementation) Ch. 4.4
Thur Housekeeping functions (implementation) Ch. 4.4
Fri Vectors
Sep 29-Oct 3 Mon Efficiency of Algorithms Ch. 2.6
Wed Efficiency of Vector Operations
Thur Amortized Analysis of Vectors
Fri First Exam (includes material through Sep 26 - info )
Oct 6-Oct 10 Mon Stacks and Queues Parts of Ch. 5, 6
Wed Implementing a Queue with a circular array (sample code) pp. 372-275
Thur Introduction to Linked Lists
Fri Implementing a Stack with a singly-linked list (sample code) pp. 329-331
Oct 13-Oct 17 Mon Housekeeping functions for our Stack implementation
Wed more work on housekeeping functions
Thur Overview of STL's list interface and the iterator class. Ch. 4.6
Fri Experiments with vectors and lists;
monitoring clock time in C++
handout
Oct 20-Oct 24 Mon No Class: Fall Break
Wed Using list iterators Ch. 4.6
our example
Thur Implementing the list class Ch. 4.7
sample code
Fri Implementing the list class
(iterator and const_iterator)
Oct 27-Oct 31 Mon (still examining list class implementation)
Wed STL Containers and algorithm library Ch. 4.9, 4.10
Thur Introduction to Trees Ch. 8.1
Fri Tree Traversals Ch. 8.2
Nov 3-Nov 7 Mon Introduction to Priority Queues and Binary Heaps Ch. 8.5 (ignoring code)
Wed Binary Heap operations Ch. 8.5 (ignoring code)
Thur Review for exam
Fri Second Exam (includes material through Oct. 31 )
Nov 10-Nov 14 Mon Vector-based implementation of Priority Queue Ch. 8.5
sample code
Wed Link-based implementation of Binary Trees sample code (revised)
Thur Binary Tree iterator sample code (revised)
Fri Binary Search Trees
(high-level concepts)
Ch. 8.4 (skip code)
Nov 17-Nov 21 Mon Binary Search Tree Implementation
(Inheritance in C++)
sample code
Wed Rotations and Balanced Search Trees Ch. 11.1
Thur AVL Trees Ch. 11.2
Fri AVL Trees (continued) Ch. 11.2
Nov 24-Nov 28 Mon 2-3-4 Trees and B-Trees Ch. 11.5
Wed No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Thur
Fri
Dec 1-Dec 5 Mon hands-on day for asgn06
Wed STL: set, multiset, map, multimap Ch. 9.1, 9.2
Thur Hash Tables Ch. 9.3
Fri
Dec 8 Mon

Dec 15 Mon Final Exam (12:00-1:50)


Michael Goldwasser
CSCI 180, Fall 2008
Last modified: Monday, 01 December 2008
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