Tentative Schedule

Week Day Topics Reading Lab
1
03/09-03/13		 1 Introduction
Java Collections Framework and Lists video1 video2		 1, skim 2.1-2.2 Lab 1: Autocomplete
2 ArrayLists 2.2-2.4, A.8, skim A, B, C
3 Generics in Java  
2
03/16-03/20		 1 ArrayLists 2.2-2.4, A.8, skim A, B, C Lab 2: Dot to Dot Generator
2 Linked Lists 2.5-2.6
3 Algorithm Efficiency and Big-O 2.1
3
03/23-03/27		 1 Iterators 2.7-2.10 Lab 3: Dot to Dot Generator Revisited
2 Testing 3
3 Stacks and Queues 4.1-4.4
4
03/30-04/03		 1 Review   Lab 4: Dot to Dot Generator Benchmarking
2 Exam I  
3 CircularQueues 4.5-4.7
5
04/06-04/10		 1 Recursion 5.1-5.2 Lab 5: Buffered IO
2 Work on Lab 5  
3 Recursion continued 5.3-5.5
6
04/13-04/17		 1 Binary Search   Lab 6: Recursion
2 Binary Trees and Binary Search Trees 6.3-6.5
3 Binary Search Trees 6.1-6.2
7
04/20-04/24		 1 Trees and Tree Traversals   Lab 7: Morse Decoder
2 Review  
3 Exam II  
8
04/27-05/01		 1 Sets and Maps 7.1-7.2 Lab 8: Morse Encoder
2 Hash Tables 7.3-7.4
3 Hashing and Collision Handling 7.5-7.6
9
05/04-05/08		 1 Tree Rotations and AVL trees 9.1-9.2 Lab 9: Autocomplete Revisited
2 Red-Black Trees 9.3
3 Shallow/Deep copies and Cloning  
10
05/11-05/15		 1 Algorithm Analysis revisited   Lab 10: HashTables
2 How to Pick a Data Structure  
3 Review for Final  
11
05/18-5/22		 Common Final Exam, 11am-1pm, TBD