1. CSCE 221
Professor Lupoli
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

2. Course Website Instructor site: on BlackBoard Central portal:
Instructors office hours (Instructor site)
TA names and office hours (Instructor Site)
TAs grade projects
Syllabus (Central site)
Class schedule including project, homework and exam dates (Instructor Site)
Grading (Central site)
Lecture slides (Central/Instructor site)
Projects (Central site)
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3. Cheating Sadly, many students are caught each semester
Usually it’s one person trying to honestly help another
But gives code
other person just takes the code
Catastrophic to your grade
Will be placed in the Academic Integrity Database
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

4. Textbook
Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd Edition
Goodrich, Mount & Tamassia
ISBN-13:
Publisher: Wiley
Copyright: 2011
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

5. Lecture/Active Learning style
Example oriented
Example code using eclipse
Example of utility of data structures
Discussion oriented
Most lectures would have some problem solving exercise
Feel free to chime in if you have questions.
Will have some group coding exercises
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

6. Grade distribution Let’s take a look at the syllabus
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7. Projects and Grace Days
Projects are allowed to be late
Up to 3 days (72 hours) MAX
Then just a 0
You are allowed to use 3 Grace Days
Can be spent any where you want
Grace Days are applied automatically
Extra Grace Days are just wasted
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8. Topics to be covered Linear data structure: list, stacks, queues
Trees (BST, RB trees, B-Trees, priority queue)
Hashing
Graphs, disjoint sets
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9. Data Structure What is a “data structure”? How are they implemented?
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10. Abstract Data Type
What is an ADT?
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11. Why do we need Data structures
Efficiency of almost any application is a function of the use of appropriate and efficient data structures
Search engines
Operating systems
Social networking portals
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

12. Why C++ over Java? C++ remains a popular language in industry
C++ is more suitable for 400-level courses such as OS and Graphics
No one vendor “owns” C++
Java includes many of the data structures featured in this course. So does C++, as part of the Standard Template Library (STL)
Java is more Platform Independent, but C++ is faster
APIs for both languages are extensive
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13. Course Tools -- Eclipse
If you wish to develop your project on your laptop or PC, we recommend the use of the Eclipse IDE.
The current version of Eclipse is called “ ”. The download can be found here.
Check out the course course resource page for help with Eclipse.
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14. Course Tools – Visual Studio
Less buggy
Not as many nice features
Free through DreamSpark
I do have videos by request
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15. Course Tools - Submissions
Projects 0 – 5
Similar to submit
Covered in detail in Project 1
You may use any IDE to develop your programs to be submitted for credit
HOWEVER, the program needs to be able to run on the Unix server in order to get credit
If it runs on your laptop, but not on Unix, it doesn’t run, and it won’t count 
TAMU CSCE 221 Intro

16. Course Tools - Make
Make (makefile) is a Linux based tool for automating the build (compile, test) process
Text based format
Covered in CSCE 110/111
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