Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures, Spring 2005
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Spring 2005

Course Description

Schedule

Resources

Mandatory Exercises

Each week you are supposed to hand in the exercises from the week plan marked with an (M) - for Mandatory. Your hand-in will be corrected and rated between 0% and 100%.

During the semester there will be 9 regular hand-ins and 2 Major hand-ins. The grade attained by a Major hand-in counts 3 times as much as the grade received by a regular hand-in. To attend the exam you have to have an weighted average of at least 70%.

It is possible to resubmit exercises if they are wrong. If you do so your point score will be updated, but points attained by a resubmission only count half. If you for instance deliver a hand-in and get the grade 50% and you resubmit a completely correct version later, your mandatory exercise your grade will be updated to 50% + 50%/2 = 75%. Take a look at the list of points to see your current weighted average.

Where and When

The hand-ins have to be delivered in our the pigeon hole outside of section 1C. Though I prefer to receive the hand-ins in the pigeon hole it is also possible to hand in by E-mail. My E-mail address is esben@itu.dk. Please let the subject of your E-mail contain the word 'IADS' for the sake of my mail-filter.

The deadline for handing in is Wednesday at 13.00, starting from Wednesday the 16. of Febuary

If you are unsure about what to hand-in when then check the list of points: The two upper rows of the list contains the number the of the week plan containing the mandatory exercises and the deadline for handing in respectively.

The corrected mandatory exercises will be given back at the following exercise session there the main problems of the exercises will be addressed. Exercises that are not picked up during the exercise session is placed in our pigeon hole.

How to read a Week plan

Running week plan k:

• In week k you will be introduced to the subject from week plan k during the lecture.
• In week k+1 you will have an exercise session about the subject from week plan k.
• The mandatory assignment from week plan k has to be handed in the Wedensday following the exercise session of week k+1.
• In week k+2 during the exercise session you will get back the assignment week plan k with comments and the solutions will be discussed.

This is what the letters in paranthesis mean

• (H) is an easy assignment that should solved at home prior to the exercise session. It will not be adressed during the exercise session.
• (M) is a mandatory assignment that has to be handed in after the exercise session
• (E) this is an extra assignment. You can hand in this assignment it will be corrected. You will not get extra points for this exercise
• (D) this is a difficult exercise

Various links

Old exam set are located here

A sheet containing some of the most important sums used in IADS can be found here

Last updated February 18, 2005 Esben Rune Hansen