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Indiana University, Fall 2021
This course studies the fundamental ideas for efficiently analyzing large amounts of data, such as DNA sequence databases and geographic information. These fundamental ideas come in two kinds: algorithms and data structures. Algorithms are instructions for solving problems and data structures are strategies for organizing information on computers. Efficient algorithms require appropriate data structures, and vice versa, so the study of algorithms and data structures is tightly linked. In this course we learn about the algorithms and data structures that form the building blocks for many of Today’s large-scale computer systems. We apply these ideas to solve challenging problems in bioinformatics and geographic information systems. Warning: a possible side-effect of taking this course is doing better on job interview questions.
Lecture
Mondays and Wednesdays 1:10pm-2:25pm, Student Building, Room 138.
Lab
Fridays 10:00am-11:55am, Ballantine Hall 118.
Instructors and Office Hours
Textbook
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java, 3rd Ed. by Mark A. Weiss
Slack (communicating with instructors and other students)
Schedule
| Day | Lecture Topic | Reading Due | Assignment Due |
| Aug. 23 | Introduction | ||
| Aug. 25 | Arrays, Rotation, Correctness | Ch. 1 | |
| Aug. 27 | Lab: Array Search, submit | ||
| Aug. 30 | Code Review & Algorithm Analysis | Ch. 2 | |
| Sep. 1 | Algo. Analysis cont’d | ||
| Sep. 3 | Project: Flood it!, submit | ||
| Sep. 6 | Labor Day | ||
| Sep. 8 | Linked Lists & Streams | Ch. 3 sec. 1-5 | Homework 1 |
| Sep. 10 | Lab: Streams, submit | ||
| Sep. 13 | Iterators, Merge Sort, Stack, Queue, Set | Ch. 3 sec. 6-7 | |
| Sep. 15 | Binary Trees | Ch. 4 sec. 1-2 | Assignment: MergeSort, submit |
| Sep. 17 | Lab: BinaryTree submit, Quiz | ||
| Sep. 20 | Binary Search Trees | Ch. 4 sec. 3 and 7 | |
| Sep. 22 | Loop Invariants, Correctness of Recursive Functions | Ch. 4 sec. 4 | Assignment: AVLTree submit |
| Sep. 24 | Lab: NextPrevBinaryTree submit | ||
| Sep. 27 | AVL Trees | ||
| Sep. 29 | BST and AVL Remove, Segment Intersection | ||
| Oct. 1 | Project: Segment Intersection submit | ||
| Oct. 4 | Hash tables | Ch. 5 sec. 1-3 | |
| Oct. 6 | Debugging and Testing | ||
| Oct. 8 | Fall Break | ||
| Oct. 11 | Review for Midterm Exam | ||
| Oct. 13 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Oct. 15 | Lab: HashTable submit | ||
| Oct. 18 | Heaps and Priority Queues | Ch. 6 sec. 1-4, 9 | |
| Oct. 20 | Binomial Queues | Ch. 6 sec. 8 | |
| Oct. 22 | Lab: BinomialHeap submit | ||
| Oct. 25 | Quicksort | Ch. 7, sec. 1-7 | |
| Oct. 27 | Sorting in Linear Time | Ch. 7 sec. 11 | |
| Oct. 29 | Lab: QuickSort submit | ||
| Nov. 1 | Graphs, Topological Order | Ch. 9, sec. 1-2 | |
| Nov. 3 | Breadth and Depth-first search | Ch. 9, sec. 3 | |
| Nov. 5 | Lab: ConnectedComponents submit | ||
| Nov. 8 | Shortest Paths | ||
| Nov. 10 | Union-Find | Ch. 8 | |
| Nov. 12 | Project: RoutingWires submit | ||
| Nov. 15 | Minimum Spanning Trees, NO CLASS, video instead | Ch. 9, sec. 5 | |
| Nov. 17 | Greedy Algorithms | Ch. 10, sec. 1, Ch. 10, sec. 2 | video |
| Nov. 19 | Lab: HuffmanCoding submit | ||
| Nov. 22-26 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Nov. 29 | Dynamic Programming | Ch. 10, sec. 3 | |
| Dec. 1 | DNA Alignment | ||
| Dec. 3 | Lab: SeamCarving submit | ||
| Dec. 6 | Backtracking | ||
| Dec. 8 | Review for Final Exam | ||
| Dec. 10 | Project: DNA Alignment submit | ||
| Dec. 17 | Final Exam | 12:35-2:35 PM in class |
Resources
Autograder for submitting coding assignments.
Code Editor and Debugger: IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition)
Grade Weighting
COVID Policies and Precautions
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