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Welcome to CS200
Tour of CS200 Web pages
Be sure you understand
- how your grade will be determined,
- how to check your grade during the semester,
- where to get the notes and assignments,
- which recitation you are registered for and where it meets,
- how to contact the instructors, including two graduate teaching assistants and two undergraduate teaching assistants
What is CS200 all about?
Algorithms
- more practice thinking about, designing, and analyzing time and space complexity
Data Structures
- ways of storing data items and the relations between them
- generic implementations that will be useful in many applications
Algorithms and Data Structures
- implementing efficient algorithms as methods of generic data structures
- using them to solve bigger (fun) programming problems
Algorithms
- searching
- sorting
- recursion
- mathematical induction
- divide and conquer
- expression evaluation
- shortest paths
Data Structures
- stacks and queues
- trees and graphs
- hash tables
- arrays and matrices
- abstract data types
Class Sessions
Lectures
- Some lecturing by me
- Lots of questions and answers by us all
- Sit close to front. If using laptop, sit behind everyone else.
- Respect each other!!!
Recitations
- Additional material covered.
- Some coding and testing.
- Participation is graded.
Grade
Check your grade often on RamCT.
| Percent of Semester Grade | Material |
|---|---|
| 30% | approximately five programming assignments, |
| 20% | approximately five written assignments, |
| 20% | two midterm exams, 10% each, |
| 10% | one final exam, |
| 10% | quizzes, |
| 5% | recitation attendance and exercises, |
| 5% | participation in lectures, using iClicker. |
Late assignments will not be accepted, unless you make arrangements with the instructor at least two days before the due date.
Semester Letter Grade
| Letter Grade | Semester Average Range |
|---|---|
| A | 90 - 100% |
| B | 80 - 89.9% |
| C | 70 - 79.9% |
| D | 60 - 69.9% |
| F | below 60% |
Bottom of range may be lowered, but never raised.
