Lectures/Schedules (Subject to change)

彈性上課/No Lectures: Week 17 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

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

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

- TB Chapter 2

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

- TB Chapter 12 

- Project: Intelligent Searching-BeatGoogle!

October – Introduce basic data structures and their implementations

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

- TB Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 

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

- TB Chapter 5 and Chapter

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

-TB Chapter 7. 

         -Lab programming test

Week 8. [3/3 hours] Heaps [Lec7] 

-TB Chapter 8

November – Introduce fundamental algorithms and their analyses

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

        -TB Chapter 4, 11

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

        -TB Chapter 4, 11

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

         -TB Chapter 12

Week 12. [3/12 hours] Midterm Exam 

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

December – Step on advance data structures

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

         -TB Chapter 10

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

         -TB Chapter 9 and 10

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

-TB Chapter 13, 15

January – Talk and Demo 

Week 16. [12 hours] Project Implementation: Let's Beat Google (Project Demo)

Week 17. [3/12 hours] Project Implementation: Let's Beat Google (Project Discussion) [彈性上課/No Lectures]

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

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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