CSC 403 Data Structures II
Summary
This is the second course on data structures in Java for graduate students. The course covers trees, heaps, associative arrays, hash tables, tries, and data structures for representing graphs. The implementation of the basic operations on each data structure are discussed and analyzed in terms of their efficiency.
Texts
Grading
The grade breakdown will be as follows:
| Homework Assignments |
40% |
| Midterm |
30% |
| Final Exam |
30% |
The grading scale will be determined by a curve. The cutoffs will be no higher than the following: 90-100, A; 80-89.99, B; 70-79.99, C; 60-69.99, D; 0-59.99, F. Plusses and minuses will be given at the high/low ends of each grade range (no A+'s or D-'s)
Prerequisites
Course policies
Late submissions: To be considered on time, an assignment must be turned in by the time and date specified on D2L. Late homework assignments may be submitted up to 3 days late; however, assignments will be penalized 5 points (out of 100) for each day that they are late.
You can expect that if a homework assignment is turned in on time, it will be graded within one week after its due date (not the date that you turn it in). If an assignment is turned in late, it will be graded within one week of its submission date.
Policies on working together: You may feel free to discuss assignments with other students or with a tutor at a general level. This may include discussion of general issues, such as the types of data structures and control flow needed for the assignment. However, when it comes to actually writing answers to written problems, or writing code, you may not work with others, with the exception of asking the tutors (or me) for debugging help. You are not allowed to copy answers/code from any source, including the Web. It has been my experience that if you write code or homework solutions together with another student, or copy from a friend's old assignment, or if a tutor writes your homework for you, or you discover a solution on the Web or from another textbook, you will be caught. Any violations of this policy will be dealt with very seriously.
This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be thoroughly addressed during class, posted under Announcements in D2L and sent via email.
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Students complete the evaluation online in CampusConnect.
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