CMSC 341 Data Structures
Spring 2005 Section 0301
Monday/Wednesday 5:30 - 6:45 SS 203
Mr. Mitch Edelman
Announcements
May 25,2005 Ms. Chauhan will hold grader's hours on Thursday, May
26, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in room ITE 345. this will be your only
opportunity to have project 5 reviewed!!
May 17, 2005 Mr. Edelman will hold office hours on Wednesday,
May 18, from 6:00 - 8:00
Feb 27. 2005 In the event of snow closing on Monday, 2/28, the
exam will be given on Wednesday, March 2.
Feb 22 Exam 1 review is scheduled for Wednesday, 2/23 - room SS109
Course Description
The principle objective of the course is to help you learn how to design
and analyze a wide range of data structures.
The course covers data structures and associated algorithms. Relationships
among data structures, their utility in various situations, and factors affecting
their performance in algorithms will be considered. You will learn to analyze
the demands of algorithms, how to choose appropriate data structures, and
how to integrate data structures into algorithms.
In addition, we will prove a number of theorems to deepen your understandign of
computer science.
Textbooks
Required: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++,
2nd Edition, by Mark Alan Weiss, Addison-Wesley
Recommended:
- Your favorite C++ reference book -- here are some of mine
- The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition by Bjarne
Stroustroup
(He's the guy who invented the language)
Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70073-5
- C++ Primer, Third Edition by Stanely B. Lippman,
Josee Lajoie
Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-82470-1
- C++ FAQs, Second Edition by Marshall Cline, Greg
Lomow, Mike Girou
Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-30983-1
- Effective C++ Second Edition by Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley
- More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley
- Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel.
This book is available in its entirety on the web at
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html
- Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis by Clifford
Shaffer,
Prentice-Hall, 1996. This book has good coverage of data structures and
algorithm
analysis in C++. It has excellent descriptions of a number of data
structures.
- Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in C++ by
Sartaj Sahni, McGraw-Hill, 1998. Covers some material not covered by
the Heileman text.
- Data Structures and Algorithms by Alfred Aho, John
Hopcroft, and Jeffrey Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1983. This is one of the
all-time classics, with code examples in Pascal.
- Fundamentals of Data Structures by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj
Sahni, and Dinesh Mehta, 1995. Another classic. In C++.
- Abstract Data Types by Nell Dale and Henry Walker, D.C.
Heath and Company, 1996. A high-level view of data structures and
algorithms,
with no programming language specified. A very worthwhile and modern
text
with an alternative viewpoint.
Prerequisites
We will assume that you have mastered the material from CMSC 201,
CMSC 202,
and CMSC
203, including mastery of the C++ language. We will not review
material that has been covered in the prerequisite courses. We do cover
a few of the data structures from CMSC 202, but from a deeper
point-of-view. A few advanced C++ topics such as templates and
exceptions will be reviewed.
Grading
Your grade for this course will be based upon 5 projects, 2 in-class
exams and the final exam. The projects are worth 40% of your grade,
each project weighted equally. Each in-class exam and the final is worth 20
percentage points. Note that the due dates for the projects and the
dates of the exams are already set (q.v., the syllabus and project
policy handout). Please plan your schedules accordingly. Makeup exams will be
not be given.
Your final letter grade is based on the standard formula:
0 <= F < 60, 60 <= D < 70, 70 <= C < 80,
80 <= B < 90, 90 <= A <= 100
These levels may be adjusted slightly in your favor, but grades will
not be curved in the conventional sense.
Your grade is given for timely work done during the semester;
incomplete grades will only be given for medical illness or other such
dire circumstances.
Attendance and Readings
You are expected to attend all lectures. You are responsible for all
material covered in the lecture, even if it is not in the textbook. You
should keep up with the assigned readings during the semester. Some
reading material will be distributed through the course web page. You
are responsible for the material in the readings, even if it is not
covered during lecture.
You must study to do well in this course. If all you do is
attend lectures and do the homework, the grade you can reasonably
expect to attain is a "C". To earn a preferred grade will require
you to explore the course content on your own and to experiment
with it. As advanced undergraduates, you are responsible for learning
material that may not be
covered in lectures. A prime learning requirement is that you
contribute to class discussions and raise questions about the course
material.
BlackBoard Discussion Board
A BlackBoard site has been created for this course. This site is used
primarily to support discussion boards, but announcements are also
posted there.
A discussion board will be established for each programming project.
Students are encouraged to post general project questions, answer
questions posted by other students or just browse the discussion board
to find answers to project questions. Your instructors and TAs will
also be posting questions and answers. Your questions may be posted
anonymously.
Other discussion boards for topics such as general C++ questions will
also be established. The course BlackBoard is accessed by logging on to
my.umbc.edu and clicking on the BlackBoard tab at the top of the page.
Contacting Me or the TAs
Please feel free to visit me or the TAs during our office hours. If you
can't make it during the regular hours, please ask for an appointment.
We will do everything we can to be available to provide help with this
course. Office hours, phone numbers and other contact information is
available on-line. If you need to contact any of the course staff
outside of lecture and office hours, email is much better than the
telephone. You should, however, observe the following etiquette:
- Do not email program code. If you want me or the TA to
help you debug your code submit the code in the usual way, and then
send email about the problem. We will look at the submitted code. Please,
do NOT
mail code to me or to the TA!
- Note that the Help Center does not offer help with code for this
course.
- Please use your real name. Since I get spammed at least as much as
you, I look for mail sent from UMBC. If you send mail from your home ISP,
I may miss it.
- Include a meaningful subject line, something like "CMSC 341
Project 2 question."
If you send mail from other than a umbc
mail account and it does not reference 341 in the subject, the
chances are real good that my span filter will consign it to
the junkmail folder.
Academic Integrity
Cheating in any form will not be tolerated. Instances of cheating will
be reported to the UMBC Academic Conduct Committee. These reports are
filed by the Committee and can be used for disciplinary action such as
a permanent record on your transcript. Academic honesty is absolutely
required of you. You are expected to be honest yourself and to report
any cases of dishonesty you see among other students in this class.
Reports of dishonest behavior will be kept anonymous.
Further details on honesty in doing projects for this course are
on-line at the Project
Policy link.
Students are welcome and encouraged to study together for exams, but
examinations are to be your own work -- not your neighbor's and not
your notes. All exams are closed-book, closed-notes. Only pencils (or
pens) and erasers are permitted in the exam room unless otherwise
indicated. Scratch paper is provided to you, as needed. Having any
other materials in your possession during an exam will be taken as
evidence of cheating and dealt with accordingly.
Syllabus
Class |
Date
|
Topic
|
Reading
|
1
|
Mon Jan 31
|
Introduction and C++
|
MAW 1
|
2
|
Wen Feb 2 |
C++ and OOP
|
MAW 1
|
|
Mon Feb 7
|
Project 1
Assigned |
|
3 |
Mon Feb 7
|
Asymptotic Analysis |
MAW 2 |
4 |
Wen Feb 9 |
Asymptotic Analysis |
MAW 3 |
5 |
Mon Feb 14 |
List ADT and Implementations |
MAW 3 |
6 |
Wen Feb 16 |
List Implementations |
MAW 3 |
|
Sun Feb 20 |
Project 1
Due at 11:59pm |
|
7
|
Mon Feb 21 |
Stacks, Queue, Dequeue ADT |
MAW 3 |
8 |
Wen Feb 23 |
Stacks, Queue, Dequeue ADT |
MAW 3 |
9
|
Mon Feb 28 |
Exam
1 |
classes 1 - 8
|
|
Wen Mar 2
|
Project 2
Assigned |
|
10
|
Wed Mar 2 |
Recursion |
class notes |
11
|
Mon Mar 7 |
Binary search trees |
MAW 4 |
12 |
Wed Mar 9
|
Binary Search Trees |
MAW 4 |
13 |
Mon Mar 14 |
Balanced Search Trees |
MAW 4 |
|
Tue Mar 15
|
Project 2
Due at 11:59pm |
|
|
Wen Mar 16 |
Project 3
Assigned |
|
14 |
Wed Mar 16 |
Balanced Search Trees |
MAW 4 |
|
Mon Mar 21 |
Spring Break
|
|
|
Wed Mar 23 |
Spring Break
|
|
15 |
Mon Mar 28 |
Balanced Search Trees |
MAW 4
|
16 |
Wed Mar 30 |
Balanced Search Trees |
MAW 4 & 12 |
17 |
Mon Apr 4 |
Balanced Search Trees |
MAW 4 & 12 |
|
Tue Apr 5
|
Project 3
Due at 11:59pm |
|
18 |
Wed Apr 6
|
Hashing |
MAW 5 |
19
|
Mon Apr 11 |
Exam 2
|
Classes 9 - 17 |
|
Wed Apr 13
|
Project 4
Assigned |
|
20
|
Wed Apr 13 |
Hashing |
MAW 5 |
21 |
Mon Apr 18 |
Hashing |
MAW 5 |
22 |
Wed Apr 20 |
Priority Queues and Heaps |
MAW 6 |
23 |
Mon Apr 25 |
Priority Queues and Heaps |
MAW 6 |
|
Tue Apr 26 |
Project 4
Due 11:59pm |
|
24 |
Wed Apr 27 |
Skip Lists |
MAW 10 + notes |
|
Mon May 2 |
Project 5
Assigned |
|
25 |
Mon May 2
|
Skip Lists |
MAW 10 + notes |
26 |
Wed May 4
|
Disjoint
Sets |
MAW 8 |
27
|
Mon May 9 |
B - Trees |
MAW 4 + notes |
28
|
Wen May 11
|
B - Trees |
MAW 4 + notes |
|
Sun May 15
|
Project 5
Due 11:59pm |
|
29
|
Mon May 16
|
Review |
|
|
Wed. May 25, 6:00 P.M
|
Final Exam
|
Classes 18 - 28 |
- Dates and topics are subject to change as required by class
progress
- MAW = Weiss text "Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis
in C++"
Course Web Page
A few handouts will be provided in paper form at the first class. After
that, all handouts will be provided only on the web. The course web
page URL
is
www.cs.umbc.edu/courses/undergraduate/341/spring05/index.shtml
Please check the web page frequently. Any changes to the page will be
mentioned in the "Latest News" link.
Last modified on January 28, 2005 by Mitch Edelman
email: edelman@cs.umbc.edu
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