Data Structures (0368.2158)
Instructors:
Prof. Hanoch Levy
(hanoch@math.tau.ac.il)
Dr. Yossi Matias
(matias@math.tau.ac.il)
The material covered during the semester (First semester 1999/00):
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Class 1 :
Introduction
Recursion (review)
From problems to algorithms to computer programs
Pseudo Language
[Cormen: Chapter 1].
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Class 2 :
Complexity , recurrences, Master Theorem.
[Cormen Ch. 2, 3, 4]
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Class 3 :
Elementary Data Structures: Lists (abstract), array implementation,
linked list, double linked list, cursors, stacks, queues.
The use of stacks for recursion implementation.
[Cormen 11].
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Class 4 :
The doubling method for maintaining dynamic tables.
Amortized complexity and the accounting method.
Trees: Definitions.
Trees: Ordered trees,
Tree traversal (In-order, Preorder, Postorder).
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Class 5 :
Tree (cont.).
Expression trees.
Binary trees. Huffman Code.
Data Structures for Sets. Dictionary. Storing sets in bit-vector,
in linked list, in array.
Advanced dictionary representation: Hash table.
Class 6 :
Hash Table (cont.).
Closed (open addressing) hash, Open (chaining) Hash.
Average complexity of open hash.
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Class 7 :
Hash tables cont.: Average complexity of closed hash,
rehashing functions, universal hashing.
Heaps.