CSc21200 FG Fall 2011

Computer Science City College of New York
CSc21200 Section FG Data Structures, Fall 2011


Instructor: Class Meets: Classroom: Office Hours: Office: Email:	Professor Zhigang Zhu M,W 04:00-05:40PM NAC-6/136 M,W 02:45-03:45 PM NAC 8/210 zhu@cs.ccny.cuny.edu

Course Update Information

August 31 (Wednesday), 2011. First day of this class.
August 31 (Wednesday), 2011. MinGW C++ Installation Tutorial for Windows and Mac users.
September 06, 2011, Assignment 1 online
September 06, 2011. Grading for Quiz 1.
September 14, 2011, Assignment 2 online
September 20, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-3.
September 24, 2011. Grading for Assignment 1.
September 26, 2011. Assignment 3 online, If you use MinGW, please use seq_ex2_MinGW.cxx to grade your implementation
October 02, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-4.
October 04, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-2.
October 10, 2011. Grading for Exam 1.
October 20, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-5.
October 23, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-3.
October 23, 2011. Assignment 4 will be due on Oct 26 (Wed)
October 29, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-5.
October 29, 2011. Exam 3 is rescheduled to Dec 14 (Wednesday), 2011
October 31, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-7.
October 31, 2011. Assignment 5 online
November 07, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-4. We will do review for exam 2. If you have questions, please bring to class on Monday, and I would like to disucss with you on both your exams and assignments
November 07, 2011.Grading for Exams 1 and 2 (updated).
November 16, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-8.
November 16, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-4 (updated)
December 02, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-14.
December 02, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-5
December 16, 2011. Grading for Assignments 1-6 (updated)
December 16, 2011. Grading for Quizzes 1-16 (updated).
December 16, 2011.Grading for Exams 1 to 3.
December 16, 2011.Final Grading . Happy Holidays!

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++, Third Edition, by Michael Main and Walter Savitch , ISBN 0-201-70297-5, Addison Wesley, softcover. Textbook can be found in CCNY bookstore.

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, QA76.73.C153D45, ISBN 0-13-089571-7. This course involves some of C++ language details that could be found in this book.

Prerequisites

CSc102 (Introduction to Computing) 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 2011 academic calendar:


Date	Planned Lecture Topics	Read/Assign/Exam
Aug 31 (W) 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)	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. Container Classes (slides for Lectures 4&5) Lecture 5. Container Classes (cont.)	Ch 3 (code) Ch 3, Assignment 2
Sep 19 (M) Sep 21 (W)	Lecture 6. Pointers and Dynamic Arrays (I) (slides for Lectures 6 &7) Lecture 7. Pointers and Dynamic Arrays (II) (point code with pointers)	Ch 4.1 - 4.2 Ch. 4.2 - 4.5
Sep 26 (M) Sep 28 (W)	Lecture 8. Dynamic Classes and the Big Three (code) NO CLASSES (College Open)	Assignment 3
Oct 03 (M) Oct 05 (W)	Exam Review 1 First Exam (Chapters 1-4)
Oct 10 (M) Oct 12 (W)	College is closed - no class! Lecture 9. Linked Lists ( code) & Exam 1 Discussions	Ch. 5.1-5.2, Assignment 4
Oct 17 (M) Oct 19 (W)	Lecture 10. Building &Using the Linked List Toolkit (code) Lecture 11. Software Development using Templates and Iterators	Ch. 5.3 - 5.5 Ch. 6, code (bag4&5, node2)
Oct 24 (M) Oct 26 (W)	Lecture 11a. Software Development using Templates and Iterators (cont.) Lecture 12. Stacks (code) and Queues (code)	Ch. 7, Ch 8
Oct 31 (M) Nov 02 (W)	Lecture 13. Introduction to Recursion Lecture 14. Using and Reasoning about Recursion	Ch. 9.1 , Assignment 5 Ch. 9.2 - 9.3
Nov 07 (M) Nov 09 (W)	Exam Review 2 Second Exam (Chapters 5-9)
Nov 14 (M) Nov 16 (W)	Lecture 15. Trees and Traversals (code) and Exam 2 Discussions Lecture 16. Binary Search Trees and the Bag Class with a BST	Ch. 10.1-10.4 Ch. 10.5, Assignment 6
Nov 21 (M) Nov 23 (W )	Lecture 17. B-Trees and Set Class (code) Lecture 18. Heaps and Priority Queues(slides) ; Time Anaysis of Trees(slides)	Ch. 11.2 Ch. 11.1, 11.3
Nov 28 (M) Nov 30 (W)	Lecture 19. Serial Searching and Binary Searching Lecture 20. Hashing & Lecture 21. Quadradic Sorting	Ch. 12.1-12.3 Ch. 12.4, Ch. 13.1
Dec 05 (M) Dec 07 (W)	Lecture 22. Recusive Sorting , Heapsort & the STL Quicksort (code) Lecture 23. Graph Basics	Ch. 13.2-13.4 Ch. 15
Dec 12 (M) Dec 14 (W)	Exam 3 Review; discussions of assignments, QAs Final Exam (mainly Ch 10-13, 15), NAC 6136

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 separately 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.