CISC 2200/5220: Data Structures

General information

Faculty: Dr. A. G. Werschulz

• Office: Rm 815D.
• Phone: (212) 636-6325

Office hours:

• Mondays: 10:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m.
• Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m—11:00 a.m.
• (or by appointment).

Class meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m, in Room 902. Note that Tuesday, February 16 is treated as a Monday on the University calendar.

Class email list: datastr STRUDEL dsm.fordham.edu (STRUDEL is a thinly-disguised @, to thwart the amount of spam that your instructor receives in his guise of list manager). This can be used for both announcements and discussion.

Text and Readings

Frank M. Carrano and Timothy M. Henry, Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors (Sixth Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2012. You should examine the following resources:

• The list of topics that we will cover.
• The publisher's website for the author's books, which you can vist to find textbook errata and so forth.

Grading

• programming projects: 40%
• one midterm exam: 25%
• one final exam: 25%
• class participation: 10%

Protocol

• Examinations: The midterm exam will be given on Monday, February 29, during the regular class period. The final exam will be on Wednesday, May 11, from 1:30 to 3:30.

• Homeworks: Programming projects (as announced in class). Time permitting, we will assign five programs. Programs are graded according to the following criteria:

  Correctness	60% (including 20% for documentation)(
  Interface	20%
  Style	20%

  Those of you who have taken either CS1 or CS2 with me already know about my guide to getting better grades on programming assignments. Although written with CS1 and CS2 in mind, I highly recommend it to any of you who would like to get better grades on programming assignments. Even if you've already read it, a review wouldn't hurt.

  Note that high-quality documentation need not be particularly verbose. Since the author uses the doxygen system, which can produce web pages that contain the documentation of your code, I will expect you to use it as well.

• Attendance: Attendance for this course is mandatory. You will be granted up to four absences from the class lectures. You must inform be by email in advance for a non-emergency absence.
• Electronica: You may not use laptop computers, tablets, or mobile phones during the lecture or the lab.

Additional Remarks

The directory /u/sobolev/agw/class/datstr/share is accessible from any of the machines in the dsm.fordham.edu domain (such as erdos or the lab machines), but not from the web. It contains useful material, such as support files for programming assignments.

You can access the source code of the examples found in the text.

Please read the following documents:

• Mission statement (what this course is about)
• An introduction to the Departmental Linux systems.
• The help page for using the Departmental Linux systems.
• Unix and Linux links.
• We strongly encourage you to use the emacs editor for creating programs. Your instructor thinks that it's the best programmer's editor, with many handy features (but not so many as to overwhelm you).
• Academic integrity statement
• Makeup exam policy.
• Course syllabus (most of the information contained therein is on this website).
• The original version of the Big-O Cheat Sheet, as well as a printable version. Need I say more?

If you believe that you have a disabling condition that may interfere with your ability to participate in the activities, coursework, or assessment of the object of this course, you may be entitled to accommodations. If so, please schedule an appointment to speak with me immediately or you may go to the Office of Disability Services (x6282). Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, all students, with or without disabilities, are entitled to equal access to the programs and activities of Fordham University.

Last modified: Tue Jan 17 10:13:05 2017