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TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE
Tentative schedule (exam date may change):
Tuesday, January 9:
Course Introduction, review of O() notation
Reading:
Big-O() review: [Weiss] Chapter 2 and [DPV] Chapter 0.3
Thursday, January 11:
DFS, Connected components of undirected graphs
Graphs: undirected/directed and adjacency list/matrix
Reading: Graphs: [DPV] Chapters 3.1 and 3.2 and [Weiss] Chapter 9.1
Tuesday, January 16:
DFS on directed graphs
Topologically sorting a DAG
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 3.3
Thursday, January 18:
Strongly Connected Components (SCCs)
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 3.4
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 1 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Tuesday, January 23:
BFS, Dijkstra's alg.
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 4.1-4.4
Thursday, January 25:
Min-heap data structure
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 4.5
Tuesday, January 30:
MST: Prim's and Kruskal's
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Thursday, February 1:
Cut property
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Drop deadline is typically today, check UCSB registration calendar.
(Note, ≥ 70% is needed to pass the course.)
Tuesday, February 6:
Union-Find data structure
Reading: [DPV] Chapter 5.1
See notes here and
lecture video GR 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Thursday, February 8:
Exam review
Tuesday, February 13:
Midterm Exam
Thursday, February 15:
Hashing
Reading: Notes from Subhash Suri
and [Weiss] Chapter 5
Tuesday, February 20:
Bloom filters
Reading:
See notes here and
lecture video RA 3 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Thursday, February 22:
More Hashing
Reading:
For more about Cuckoo hashing see the nice lecture notes by Rasmus Pagh
Tuesday, February 27:
Binary Search Trees (BSTs) review and Balanced BSTs
Reading: [Weiss] Chapter 4.1-4.3 and
Notes from Subhash Suri
Thursday, February 29:
Balanced BST: AVL Trees
Reading: [Weiss] Chapter 4.4 and
Notes from Subhash Suri
Tuesday, March 5:
2-SAT Algorithm
For 2-SAT, see notes here and Lecture video GR 2 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Thursday, March 7:
Introduction to Markov Chains
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 4 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Tuesday, March 12:
PageRank
See notes here and
Lecture video GR 4 from Eric's Algorithms MOOC
Thursday, March 14:
Final exam review
Final Exam:
Monday, March 18th, Noon-3pm.
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