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Course Outlines

Spring 2015 - CMPT 225 D100

Data Structures and Programming (3)

Class Number: 6432

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 6 – Apr 13, 2015: Mon, Wed, Fri, 10:30–11:20 a.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Apr 23, 2015
    Thu, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    MACM 101 and one of CMPT 125, 126 or 128; or CMPT 128 and approval as a Biomedical Engineering Major.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduction to a variety of practical and important data structures and methods for implementation and for experimental and analytical evaluation. Topics include: stacks, queues and lists; search trees; hash tables and algorithms; efficient sorting; object-oriented programming; time and space efficiency analysis; and experimental evaluation. Students with credit for CMPT 201 may not take this course for further credit. Quantitative.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course will explore ideas of data and program organization that can help in developing elegant and efficient solutions to complex tasks. The primary topics are abstract data types (ADTs) to help manage the complexity of programs, and data structures to support efficient algorithms. We will study the specification, analysis, implementation (in C++), experimental evaluation, and application of fundamental ADTs and data structures. We will also study fundamental searching and sorting algorithms.

Topics

  • Abstract data types (abstraction, encapsulation, information hiding).
  • Data structures: arrays, lists, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, sets, hash tables, graphs.
  • Algorithms: searching and sorting; correctness and efficiency.
  • Programming: object-oriented programming for ADT re-use; efficient implementation.

For a full course description/outline please visit the Computing Science website:  https://portal.cs.sfu.ca/outlines/

Grading

NOTES:

Assignment and lab activities (20%); midterm tests (40%); final exam (40%). Details will be provided in a course outline distributed in the first week of classes, which may supersede this grading scheme. Students must attain an overall passing grade on the programming portions of assignments in order to obtain a clear pass (C- or better).

Students must attain an overall passing grade on the weighted average of exams in the course in order to obtain a clear pass (C- or better).

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Data Structures & Algorithms in C++, 2nd Ed., Goodrich, Tamassia and Mount, Wiley, 2011, 97804
ISBN: 9780470383278

Registrar Notes:

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