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Algorithm and Data-structure Analysis

  • Course-codes: CompSci 2201
  • Year-level: 2
  • Study-units: 3
  • Contact: 24 hrs lectures, and 6 hrs tutorials

Course offerings

2015 Semester 2
2015 Trimester 3

Why should I study Algorithm and Data-structure Analysis?

What will I learn?

You will learn about:

  • Ideas of correctness and proof, to enable you to verify that your programs do what you intend;
  • Notions of complexity and analyisis, so that you can see how the execution time of a programs depends on the size of the problem it is solvingU;
  • Approaches to problem solving;
  • The notion of abstract-data-type, and its importance in modular design;
  • Recursion;
  • ADT representations of stacks, queues, lists, sets, trees and hash-tables; and
  • THe concept of graphs, and graph traversal algorithms

What should I know before I enrol?

The exercises in this course require you to write programs confidently in a high-level object-oriented language, such as C++, or Java. The required knowledge can be obtained from the course Object-oriented programming which teaches programming

How will my performance be assessed?

Your performance in the course will be assessed in three ways:

  • Tutorial assignments will contribute between 20% and 30% to your final score.
  • The final exam usually contributes the remainder of the marks.
  • SGDE will contribute to 5% of your final mark

The precise details of assessment vary from year to year, and will be explained at the first lecture.

What comes next?

There course that naturally follows on from Algorithm and Data-structure Analysis is::

What do students think of this course?

From time-to-time, we ask students to give their opinion of this course, and allow the lecturers to respond to the evaluation. The most recent results, labelled "courseEvaluation", and "courseResponse" are here:

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Disclaimer

The information presented here should apply to most students. It is possible, however, that special conditions may apply to you. You can find out by reading the University Calendar program rules