Lecture 25: Standard Template Library

Tuesday 05/08, 2007

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Slides As Shown:

• Announcements, etc: [slide view] [print view]

• Big-O notation : [slide view] [print view]

• Standard Template Library : [slide view] [print view]

• Recursion : [slide view] [print view]

Topics Covered:

• Announced revised midterm/final exam grading policy. See announcement slides.

• Continued discussion of binary search trees.

• Discussed hash tables. Used data structure visualization tool to compare open vs closed hashing.

• Discussed the STL container classes vector, list, set, map and hash_map: vector1.cpp, svector1.cpp, list1.cpp, slist1.cpp, set1.cpp, map1.cpp and hash_map1.cpp.

• Performed timing runs on these data structures on random data with 10,000, 20,000, 200,000 and 400,000 elements: vector2.cpp, svector2.cpp, list2.cpp, slist2.cpp, set2.cpp, map2.cpp and hash_map2.cpp.

• The conclusion is that the choice of data structure can have a drastic effect on the running time of a program.

• Asked students to think about the 7 pirates and 65 gold pieces problem for Thursday. Think recursively!