| Date | Planned Lecture Topic | Read Before Lecture |
| Aug 26
Aug 28 |
Preconditions/Postconditions & Classes
More Classes & Operator Overloading |
Through Section 2.5 |
| Sep 2
Sep 4 |
Container Classes
Introduction to Pointers |
Chapter 3
Section 4.1 |
| Sep 9
Sep 11 |
Dynamic Arrays
Introduction to Linked Lists |
Section 4.2 - 4.5
Section 5.1 |
| Sep 16
Sep 18 . |
Building a Linked List Toolkit
Using the Linked List Toolkit plus exam review |
Section 5.2
Section 5.3 - 5.5 Sample exam |
| Sep 23
Sep 25 |
First Exam (Chapters 1-5)
Template Functions |
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Section 6.1 - 6.2 |
| Sep 30
Oct 2 |
Template Classes
The Stack Template Class |
Sections 6.3 - 6.4
Section 7.1 - 7.3 |
| Oct 7
Oct 9 . |
Applications that use Stacks
Queues and Priority Queues plus exam review |
Sections 7.4
Chapter 8 Sample exam |
| Oct 14
Oct 16 |
Second Exam (Chapters 6-8)
Introduction to Recursion |
.
Section 9.1 |
| Oct 21
Oct 23 |
Fractals and their Friends
Third Exam (Recursion) |
Section 9.2
Sample exam |
| Oct 28
Oct 30 |
Trees and Traversals
Binary Search Trees |
Section 10.1-10.4
Section 10.5 |
| Nov 4
Nov 6 . |
Heaps and B-Trees
B-Tree Implementation Details plus exam review |
Pages 492 - 501
Rest of Section 11.2 Sample exam |
| Nov 11
Nov 13 |
Fourth Exam (Chapters 10-11)
Binary Search and Hashing |
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Chapter 12 |
| Nov 18
Nov 20 |
Quadradic Sorting
Mergesort |
Section 13.1
Pages 583 - 595 |
| Nov 25
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Quicksort
. |
Pages 595 - 603
Project 4 (p 617) |
| Dec 2
Dec 4 |
The Standard Library Quicksort
Derived Classes and an Ecosystem |
Quicksort Web Page
Sections 14.1 - 14.2 |
| Dec 9
. |
Demos, Stump the Prof, Videos
plus exam review |
Project 3 (p 661)
Sample exam |
| Dec 16
. Dec 17 . |
Fifth exam (Chap 12-13) for 12:30 lecture
is at 3:30-6:30 on Tuesday, Dec 16. Fifth exam (Chap 12-13) for 2:00 lecture is at 3:30-6:30 on Wednesday, Dec 17. |
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The textbook is Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++ by
Michael Main
and
Walter Savitch
.
The five exams
are listed in the table of lectures.
A collection of
sample exam questions
is available through our class web pages.
Michael Main
(main@colorado.edu)