Data Structures and Algorithms Slides Session 1. January 21, 2009 Lecture1.pdf
- 1. Data Structures and Algorithms Session 1. January 21, 2009 Instructor: Bert Huang http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bert/courses/3137
- 2. Session Plan Administrative overview Introduction to course content
- 3. About the Course: Description Lectures: Monday/Wednesday 2:40-3:55 PM Mudd 633 We will study: commonly used data structures and algorithms, how to analyze these data structures and algorithms.
- 4. About the Course: Staff Bert Huang Office hours: Monday 4-6 PM (after class) CEPSR/Schapiro Building 624 bert@cs.columbia.edu TA’s: Priyamvad Deshmukh, prd2112@columbia.edu Manu N, mn2370@columbia.edu Nikhil Ramesh, nf2241@columbia.edu
- 5. About the Course: Reading Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java, 2nd Edition by Mark Allen Weiss. ISBN-10: 0321370139
- 6. About the Course: Resources Course homepage: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bert/courses/3137 Courseworks: http://courseworks.columbia.edu Textbook Errata: http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~weiss/dsaajava2/errata.html Textbook Source Code: http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~weiss/dsaajava2/code/
- 7. About the Course: Prerequisites etc. COMS W1007: Object-Oriented Programming and Design in Java (or equivalent) Co-requisite COMS W3203: Discrete Mathematics COMS W3134: Data Structures and Algorithms (less intense but covers similar topics for non-majors)
- 8. About the Course: Grading 50% Homework Assignments (six) 20% Midterm Exam (closed book, closed notes) 30% Final Exam (closed book, closed notes)
- 9. About the Course: Academic Honesty You must read the Computer Science department’s academic honesty policy listed at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/honesty/ Additional Comments: Plagiarism is easy to catch. All homework and exams in this class are individual assignments. No collaboration.
- 10. About the Course: Expectations Attend class Ask questions Read assigned text Start homework early Write well and clearly Get help when you need it
- 11. About the Course: Grievances Write reports of grading disputes on paper Provide clear explanation of the disagreement Give report to TA, TA will decide if correction is warranted If there is still disagreement, submit grading dispute report to me
- 12. Definitions Data Structure - abstract way to organize information Algorithm - abstract way to perform computation tasks
- 13. Data Structures Variables: boolean, int/byte/short/long, float/double, char Arrays, Strings We’ll go over more advanced structures: linked lists, trees, heaps, graphs, hash tables, etc. Smarter data structures can be abstracted
- 14. Benefits of Abstraction Consider Java Strings We use them all the time How is the text in a String object stored? When we call the length() method, how does it find the length? How does it concatenate strings?
- 15. Course Goals A series of case studies on common data structures and algorithms Gain intuition about how to design useful and efficient data structures Understand how to analyze any data structure or algorithm
- 16. Algorithm Analysis We must analyze algorithms’ and data structures’ running times and memory requirements. Input data nowadays are huge. Need efficient algorithms. Over 100 million facebook.com users with profiles, photos Google’s system indexes over 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) URLs
- 17. Next Class We will discuss how to formally analyze algorithms Big-Oh notation
- 18. Reading Course Website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bert/courses/3137 Academic Honesty policy http://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/honesty Weiss Chapters 1 and 2 Ch. 1 should be about 75% review