Lectures/Schedules (Subject to change)

彈性上課/No Lectures: Week 2, 16 and 18.

September- Get ready to programming!

Week 1. [3/3 hours] Opening: A brief overview of Java and eclipse [Lec0] [Lec1]

- Text Book (TB) Chapter 1

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 2. [6 hours] Java environement setup. [彈性上課/No Lectures]

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 3. [3/3 hours] Introduction: Object-oriented design and abstract data type [Lec2]

- TB Chapter 2

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 4. [3/3 hours] Text matching and Class project announcements [Lec3]

- TB Chapter 12 

- Project: Intelligent Searching-BeatGoogle!

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

October – Introduce basic data structures and their implementations

Week 5. [3/3 hours] Linked List [Lec4]

- TB Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 6. [3/3 hours] Queues and Stacks [Lec5] 

- TB Chapter 5 and Chapter

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 7. [3/3 hours] Trees [Lec6]

-TB Chapter 7. 

-Lab programming test

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 8. [3/3 hours] Heaps [Lec7] 

-TB Chapter 8

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

November – Introduce fundamental algorithms and their analyses

Week 9. [3/3 hours] BigO, Divide and Conquer [Lec8]  

-TB Chapter 4, 11

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 10. [3/3 hours] Merge/Quick Sort (Recurrence Equations) [Lec9]

-TB Chapter 4, 11

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 11. [3/3 hours] Dynamic Programming [Lec10]

-TB Chapter 12

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 12. [3/12 hours] Midterm Exam 

-Lecture 1-9 TB Chapter 1-8, 11-12

- 12 hours self study.

December – Step on advance data structures

Week 13. [3/3 hours] Binary Search Trees [Lec11]

-TB Chapter 10

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 14. [3/3 hours] Maps and Hash tables [Lec12]  and Dictionaries and Skip Lists  [Lec13] 

-TB Chapter 9 and 10

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study.

Week 15. [3/6 hours] Graphics I [Lec14] and Graphics II [Lec15]  

-TB Chapter 13, 15

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

January – Talk and Demo 

Week 16. [12 hours] Project Implementation: Let's Beat Google (Project Proposal) [彈性上課/No Lectures]

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 17. [3/12 hours] Project Implementation: Let's Beat Google (Project Demo)

- 2 hours lab session and 10 hours self study. 

Week 18. [12 hours] Project Implementation: Let's Beat Google (Final Report and Code Uplaod) [彈性上課/No Lectures]

- 12 hours self study. 

TBA

Homework:

- Assignments/Labs: 40% (Weekly)

- Programming Project: 30% - including project proposal (20%), demo (40%) and implementation (40%). 3-5 students as a team. The project details will be announced at the early of Oct.

Exam: 

- Midterm Exam (close book): 30% 

*Please note that all slides/exams will be written in English despite Chinese or English sessions. Students are strongly encouraged to write their proposal and present their project in English.

Text Book

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java 6th edition, by Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Official Website: http://www.wiley.com/go/global/goodrich

PDF Handouts [zip]

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