1. CENG 213 Data Structures Nihan Kesim Çiçekli
Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
CENG 213 Data Structures

2. CENG 213 – Section 1 Instructor: Nihan Kesim Çiçekli Office: A308
Lecture Hours:
Section 01: Tue. 10:40 12:30 (BMB2); Thur. 11:40 12:30 (BMB2)
Course Web Page:
Teaching Assistants:
Sinem Demirci, Office: A301
Özcan Dülger, Office: B202
CENG 213 Data Structures

3. Course Description
Course Objectives: To introduce abstract concepts for data organization and manipulation, to show how these concepts are useful in problem solving. 
Prerequisite: CENG 140
Text Book and References
Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ (3rd ed.), Addison Wesley, 2006 (Current Textbook).
M. T. Goodrich, R. Tamassia and D. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, 2004 Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures and Problem Solving Using C++, 2nd ed., Addison Wesley 2000
Sartaj Sahni, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in C++, McGraw Hill, 1998.
H.M. Deitel, P.J. Deitel, How To Program C++ and Java by Prentice-Hall, 2001.
The C++ Tutorial:
CENG 213 Data Structures

4. Grading Midterm I 20% (Nov 21, 2013, Thursday, tentative)
Midterm II 20% (Dec 26, 2013, Thursday, tentative)
Final Exam 30%
Assignments 30% (Four programming homework)
CENG 213 Data Structures

5. Policies Policy on missed midterm: Lateness policy:
no make-up exam
Lateness policy:
Every student has a total of 7 days for late submission for assignments. One can spend this credit for any of the assignments or distribute it for all. If total of late submissions exceeds the limit, a penalty of 5*day*day is applied.
A student can take the final exam if and only if s/he gets at least 30% points from each of the first two assignments
All assignments and programs are to be your own work. No group projects or assignments are allowed.
CENG 213 Data Structures

6. Course Outline
Overview of object-oriented programming with C++ [chapter 1]
Algorithm analysis [chapter 2]
Sorting [chapter 7]
Lists, stacks, queues [chapter 3]
Trees [chapter 4]
Hashing [chapter 5]
Priority queues [chapter 6]
Graphs [chapter 9]
CENG 213 Data Structures