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CS 151 Syllabus

Programming and Problem Solving II

Revised: August, 2021

Course Description

A course on data structures and object-oriented programming. Object-oriented concepts covered will include: exceptions, inheritance, encapsulation, composition, and interfaces. Data structures covered will include lists, queues, stacks, binary trees, and binary search trees. Algorithms considered will include traversing, iterating, inserting, removing, and searching. Recursion will be emphasized. Big-O notation will be introduced.

Prerequisite & Notes

  • Prerequisite: Passing of CS 150 with at least a grade of C
  • Corequisite: MATH 146, MATH 153, or MATH 255
  • 4 Credit Hours
  • Required for major, required for minor

Text

Frank M. Carrano and Timothy N. Henry, Data Structures and Abstractions with Java , Fifth Edition, Pearson, 2019.

Grading Procedure

Grading procedures and factors influencing course grade are left to the discretion of individual instructors, subject to general university policy.

Attendance Policy

Attendance policy is left to the discretion of individual instructors, subject to general university policy.

Course Outline

  • Brief Java Review
    Several key Java concepts will be re-introduced within the framework of a brief review of CS 150.
  • Inheritance, Interfaces and Related Topics
    Discussion of Java inheritance, method overloading/overriding, class hierarchies, generic types, dynamic and static typed variables, exceptions, polymorphism, abstract classes, Java Interfaces.
  • ADTs and Related Topics
    The List Abstract Data Type (ADT) and its implementation using array-based data and linked-based data structures; iterators as objects used to traverse collections of data;
  • Recursion and Algorithm Efficiency
    A discussion of recursive algorithms and how they compare to iterative algorithms. How recursion is accomplished; a discussion of stacks and heaps; a brief overview of algorithm efficiency focusing on Big-Oh notation.
  • More Topics Related to the ADTs
    A brief introduction to sorting; sorted lists; inheritance and lists; mutable, immutable, and cloneable objects; sequential search versus binary search.
  • The ADTs in Detail
    The Discussion of various ADTs. Examples, may include Stacks, Queues, Maps, Dictionaries, or others; Included ADTs are at the discretion of the instructor.
  • The Tree ADT (Time Permitting)
    General trees and binary trees; tree traversals; implementation of the Binary Tree ADT; binary search trees.
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