CS286: Algorithms

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Spring 2001
Week Period Topics Reading Assignment Lab
1
3/5-3/9
Lecture 1 Course introduction   Prerequisite assessment
Lecture 2 Algorithm Analysis Pages 1-32.
2
3/12-3/16
Lecture 1 Mathematical Toolbox Pages 32-52.
Lecture 2 Recursion and Induction
Execution time
Pages 53-64.
3
3/19-3/23
Lecture 1 Sorting -- Heapsort Pages 137-149. Sorting Algorithms
Lecture 2 Sorting -- Quicksort Pages 153-171.
4
3/26-3/30
Lecture 1 Greedy Algorithms Pages 329-343 Huffman Compression
Lecture 2 Order Statistics Pages 185-194.
5
4/2-4/6
Lecture 1 Homework Presentations  
Lecture 2 Midterm Exam  
6
4/9-4/13
Lecture 1 Lab make-up  
Lecture 2 Good Friday -- No class  
7
4/16-4/20
Lecture 1 Graphs Pages 86-90. Graphs
Lecture 2 Breadth- and Depth-First Search Pages 463-483.
8
4/23-4/27
Lecture 1 Single-Source Shortest Paths -- Dijkstra's Algorithm Pages 514-531.
Lecture 2 Minimum Spanning Trees -- Kruskal, Prim Pages 498-510.
9
4/30-5/4
Lecture 1 Red-Black Trees Pages 91-97, 244-277.
Lecture 2 Dynamic Programming Pages 299-319.
10
5/7-5/11
Lecture 1 NP-complete problems  
Lecture 2 Catch-up/Review  
11
5/14-5/18
Exam week Final exam    
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