Instructor: Saswati Sarkar (swati@ee.upenn.edu)
T.A. Dhanant Subhdrabandhu
( dhanant@seas.upenn.edu
)
Programming Assistant (P. A): Marcus De Young
( mrd @seas.upenn.edu
)
Course Web Page: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~swati/

Class Tuesday Thursday: 9-10:30, 212 Moore
Instructor Office Hours: 10:30-11:30, Tuesday, 360 Moore
12-1 Thursday 360 Moore
(can schedule meetings other times by appointment)
T.A. Office Hours: Wednesday 11:30-12:30(??), Friday 2-3,
Room??
P.A. Office Hours: Monday 12-1, Wednesday 10:30-11:30,
Room??
Recitation: Day?? Room??

Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C
Mark Allen Weiss

EE 110 (Knowledge of C)
CSE 260

Homeworks once in two weeks (15% of grade)
Posted every alternate Thursday
Due 14 days after posting (solution posted after class)
Exceptions will be notified
First Homework posted today, 8 th Jan, Due 15 th
Jan before 9 AM
Consultation allowed but no copying
Late submission not accepted

Every homework will have one program
Program can be done in C or Java
C programs will be tested in eniac machine
Programs can be done in groups of two students
Contact P.A. for any assistance in programming
Submit all homework programs to P.A.

2 Midterms: 25% each Dates?
Comprehensive Final: 35%
3 Review Lectures: Lecture 1?
Lecture 2?
Lecture 3 (April 18)

No class, no office hours on Januray 29, February 26,
28

Course Motivation
Mathematical Foundation:
Complexity Analysis:
Data Structures: List, Stacks, Queues
Algorithm: Searching and Trees
Sorting and Heaps
Graph Algorithms (Depth first Search,
Breadth First Search, Topological sort,
Shortest path algorithm, Spanning Tree
Algorithm)
Computability and Complexity

Need to run computer programs efficiently!
Computer program:
Accepts Input (Data)
Performs a Sequence of action with the input
Generates Output (Data)
Efficient Management of Data
(Data Structures)
Efficient Sequence of Actions
Algorithms

Sequence of actions a ``dumb’’ machine can follow
For j=1 to N print j
Efficient versus Inefficient algorithm

You have a problem to solve
Design an efficient algorithm
Use good data structures
Show that your algorithm works!
Prove its correctness
Study the efficiency of your algorithm

Design of Algorithms
Proving Correctness of Algorithms
Formal study of efficiency of algorithms
Run time
Storage required