Course Information

Instructor: Robbie Schweller
EIEAB 3.220
956-665-2667
robert.schweller@utrgv.edu
Office hours: M: 8:15 am-10:15, W: 1:45-3:45 pm, and by appointment.
Schedule: EIEAB 2.209, TR 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Books: Main: "Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++", 4th edition by Mark A. Weiss. Recommended: "Introduction to Algorithms", any edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein.
Syllabus:CSCI3333_syllabus

Schedule / Topics

Week T R Homework
Sorting and Searching
8/24 No class Algorithm Analysis
Heap Sort vs. Selection Sort
Read: Chapters 1 and 2.
hw0 (due 8/28)
8/31 Binary Search, QuickSort, MergeSort Comparison Based Sorting
MergeSort analysis
Asymptotic Notation
Read: 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
hwTT1 (due 9/6)
9/7 Comparison Based Sorting Lower Bound
Read: 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
Bounded-Universe Sorting: Counting Sort and Radix Sort
Read: Section 7.11 CountingSort.pdf RadixSort.pdf
hwTT2 (due 9/13)
Data Structures
9/14 Binary Search Trees Binary Search Trees, AVL Trees
Reading: 4.1-4.3, 4.4, 12.4.2 avlRotations.pdf
9/21 AVL Trees
avlRotations.pdf
Exam 1
9/28 Tries trieSlides1.pdf wikipedia: Trie Tries trieSlides1.pdf
wikipedia: Trie words2.txt
10/5 Heaps
lecHEAP-slides.pdf Reading: 6.1-6.4
Hash Tables and Maps
unordered_map
map
Reading: Chapter 5
Graph Algorithms
10/12 Graphs
Reading: 9.1-9.3
Graphs, Graph Searching, BFS
BFS.pdf
10/19 Shortest Paths: Dijkstra Shortest Paths: Dijkstra
10/26 Shortest Paths: Bellman-Ford Network Flows, Perfect Matching, Edmonds-Karp
lecFLOW.pdf Reading: 9.4
11/2 Network Flows, Perfect Matching, Edmonds-Karp
lecFLOW.pdf
Reading: 9.4
Exam 2
Algorithm Design
11/9 Divide and Conquer Algorithms
Master Theorem
Reading: Chapter 10.2 Karatsuba algorithm
Divide and Conquer Algorithms
Reading: Chapter 10.2 Strassen algorithm Linear Time Selection Master Theorem - Multiple Size Divide and Conquer
11/16 Divide and Conquer Algorithms
Master Theorem - Multiple Size Divide and Conquer
Linear Time Selection
Dynamic Programming: Longest Common Subsequence
Reading: 10.3
11/23 Dynamic Programming: Matrix Chains Thanksgiving
Complexity
11/30 NP-completeness
P,NP,NP-hard,NP-complete, polynomial-time reductions 3-SAT, k-clique
Study Day
12/7 Final Exam:
Section 05: Wednesday, 8:00am-9:45
Section 06: Wednesday, 10:15am-12:00