Computer Science 302
Introduction to Data Structures
Fall 2009

Revised September 1, 2009.

Please look at the Announcements Page every day.

Instructor:

Dr. Larmore

Office, TBE B378B.

Telephone ☎ 702-895-1096,

Email: larmore "at" cs "dot" unlv "dot" edu.

Office Hours: Subject to change.

10:00 -- 11:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays.

11:30 -- 12:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Contacting Me:

It's best to send me email at larmore@cs.unlv.edu. Be sure to write "CS302" in the subject field so that I know what the message is about. (I delete lots of messages without reading them, based on the subject fields.)

You may also telephone my office and leave a message.

Please, never try to communicate with me by leaving notes on my door, under my door, or in my mailbox in the department office, as those notes get lost, and I can't retrieve them remotely.

Graduate Assistant:

Abhinav Dasu will hold office hours in the lab (TBE B361) Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00 to 4:00.

Days of Instruction:

August 25, 2009 - December 3, 2009.

Thanksgiving Day Recess:

November 26, 2009.

Time of Instruction:

8:30 - 9:45, Tuesday and Thursday.

Place of Instruction:

TBE B170.

Textbook:

Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++
Third Edition
by Mark Allen Weiss

Prerequisites:

CSC 202 (Computer Science II)

MAT 181 (Elementary Calculus I)

Anyone who has not taken all prerequisites and earned a grade of "C" or better in each must see me immediately. I will not hesitate to administratively drop a student who lacks the prerequisites, as unprepared students slow down the class. I will be happy to sign a prerequisite waiver form if you have actually taken the prerequisites but the registration system doesn't know this, such as if you took them at another institution. If you come to see me about this, please bring unofficial copies of your transcripts from that other institution.

Examinations

First Examination: Thursday, September 17.

Second Examination: Thursday, October 15.

Third Examination: Thursday, November 12.

Final Examination: Thursday, December 10, 8:00 -- 10:00.

Homework

There will be hand-written assignments and programming assignments. All programming assignments must be written in C++, must be submitted electronically from your engineering account, and must compile and run on student.egr.edu.

You may permit another student to look at your code, but you are forbidden to make a copy of your code available to another student electronically.

If a portion of the code you turn in was obtained from another source (such as a web site) you must give a reference within your code, such as: "This procedure was from http://www.codesource.com"

Grading

The grading will be based on examinations and homework. The homework will count much less than the examinations, because I am allowing you to work together on the homework.
However, the examinations will be designed in such a way that if you do not do homework, or if you simply allow others to do it for you, you will not do well on the exams.

Syllabus