Instructor
| VIU Profile: | Dr Russell Campbell |
| Email: | Russell.Campbell [at] viu [dot] ca |
| Office: | Nanaimo Campus, Building 315, Room 218 |
Email me to set up a time for discussion on Zoom if needed.
Schedule
The following plan for weekly topics, project milestones, assignments, and labs is only a draft and is subject to change.
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Sep 7–11 | course overview; discrete math review: logs, proof, mathematical induction; big-Oh, big-Omega, big-Theta |
| Sep 14–18 | runtime of algorithms: code blocks, loops, nested loops, recursion; union-find algorithms |
| Sep 21–25 | runtime of algorithms: memoization; analysis of union-find |
| Sep 28–Oct 2 | The Master Theorem; divide-and-conquer algorithms; searching and sorting algorithms; custom ordering of elements |
| Oct 5–9 | linked lists; creating linked lists using union-find data structures; abstract data types |
| Oct 12–16 | dictionaries/maps |
| Oct 19–23 | hashing (closed/open) |
| Oct 26–30 | binary-search trees and balancing height |
| Nov 2–6 | AVL trees; red-black trees; heaps |
| Nov 9–13 | (study week) |
| Nov 16–20 | graph representations; calculating degree, walks, shortest-path, distance, diameter, the triangle inequality; The Four-Colour Theorem |
| Nov 23–27 | graph algorithms: breadth-first search; depth-first search; minimum-spanning trees |
| Nov 30–Dec 4 | dynamic programming; greedy algorithms; shortest-path algorithms: Dijkstra's, Prim's, Kruskal's |
| Dec 7–11 | (CSCI 320: brief, informal preview) |
Midterms
- Oct 6 all topics from Sep 7 up to and including Oct 2
- Nov 5 all topics from Sep 7 up to and including Nov 3
Assignments
- Sep 14–Oct 2 Assignment 1 (TBD)
- Oct 8–Nov 3 Assignment 2 (TBD)
- Nov 6–Dec 3 Assignment 3 (TBD)
Labs
Each week will have a lab (~10 total), EXCEPT for the following weeks:
- Sep 7–11 (no lab)
- Nov 2–6 (no lab)
- Nov 9–13 (no lab)
- Dec 7–11 (no lab)
Content of labs will support weekly topics and assignments. You will receive a mark for completing, so it is to your advantage to try, explore concepts, and even share what you discover with others in the class.