CS 201 Syllabus (tentative)

• Week 1 (2/13)
  • Tu: Intro to Course & Java (Chapter 1)
    
  • Th: Reference Types (Chapter 2)
  
  
• Week 2 (2/20)
  • Tu: Objects, Classes & Inheritance (Chapters 3 & 4)
    
  • Th: Inheritance (Chapter 4)
  
  
• Week 3 (2/27)
  • Tu: Searching & Algorithm Analysis (Chapter 5)
    
  • Th: Data Structures Survey (Chapter 6)
    
  
  
• Week 4 (3/6)
  • Tu: Data Structures Survey II (Chapter 6)
  • Th: Recursion, Backtracking (Chapter 7)
    
  
  
• Week 5 (3/13)
  • Tu: Implementing the List using Arrays (Chapter 15)
  • Th: Linked Lists (Chapter 17)
  
  
• Week 6 (3/20)
  • Tu: Stacks (Chapters 11 & 16)
    
  • Th: Exam (in class)
  
  

  Spring Break - No Classes (Last week of March)
   

• Week 7 (4/3)
  • Tu: Queues (Chapter 16)
    
  • Th: Intro to Trees (Chapter 18)
  
  
• Week 8 (4/10)
  • Tu: Binary Search Trees (BSTs) (Chapter 19)
    
  • Th: Balanced BSTs (Chapter 19)
  
  
• Week 9 (4/17)
  • Tu: Hash Tables (Chapter 20)
  • Th: Heaps & Priority Queues (Chapter 21)
  
  
• Week 10 (4/24)
  • Tu: Sorting (Chapter 8)
  • Th: File Compression (Chapter 12)
  
  
• Week 11 (5/1)
  • Tu: Numerical Applications & RSA (Chapter 7.4)
    
  • Th: Implementing Large Integers  
  
  
• Week 12 (5/8)
  • Tu: The Value of OOP - "Simpletext" in 5 minutes!
  • Th: Conclusion
    
  
  
• Final Exam - Saturday May 19 from 9am to noon in MBH 538