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TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE
Tentative schedule (exam date may change):
Monday, September 30:
Course Introduction, review of O() notation
Graphs: undirected/directed and adjacency list/matrix
Reading:
Big-O() review: [DPV] Chapter 0.3
Reading: Graphs: [DPV] Chapter 3.1
Wednesday, October 2:
DFS and Connected components of undirected graphs
Topologically sorting a DAG
Reading: [DPV] Chapters 3.2 and 3.3
Monday, October 7:
Strongly Connected Components (SCCs)
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 3.4
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 1 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Wednesday, October 9:
BFS, Dijkstra's alg.
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 4.1-4.4
Monday, October 14:
Min-heap data structure
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 4.5
Wednesday, October 16:
Shortest paths in general graphs: Bellman-Ford
Detecting negative weight cycles
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 4.6
Monday, October 21:
MST: Prim's and Kruskal's
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Wednesday, October 23:
Cut property
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Drop deadline is typically today, check UCSB registration calendar.
(Note, ≥ 70% is needed to pass the course.)
Monday, October 28:
Union-Find data structure
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Wednesday, October 30:
Exam review
Monday, November 4:
Midterm Exam
Wednesday, November 6:
Hashing
Reading: Notes from Subhash Suri
and [Weiss] Chapter 5
Monday, November 11:
No Class -- UCSB Holiday (Veteran's Day)
Wednesday, November 13:
Bloom filters
Reading:
See notes here and
Lecture video RA 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Monday, November 18:
More Hashing: Cuckoo hashing
Reading:
For more about Cuckoo hashing see the nice lecture notes by Rasmus Pagh
Wednesday, November 20:
Binary Search Trees (BSTs) review and Balanced BSTs intro
Reading: [Weiss] Chapters 4.1-4.3 and
Notes from Subhash Suri
Monday, November 25:
Balanced BST: AVL Trees
Reading: [Weiss] Chapter 4.4 and
Notes from Subhash Suri
Wednesday, November 27:
No Class -- Thanksgiving
Monday, December 2:
2-SAT Algorithm
For 2-SAT, see notes here and
Lecture video GR 2 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC (accessible via Ed)
Wednesday, December 4 (last class):
Final exam review
Final Exam, see: UCSB Final Exam Schedule
Thursday, December 12, Noon-3pm.
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