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Past Announcements (Fall 2002)

• Final Exam Friday December 13, 11:30am-2:00pm. Room to be announced by the Registrar's Office.
• Midterm Class Performance Go to the protected area to learn more about your performance so far in class.
• Errata Subject 8 In the protected area that contains the notes, the error on page 6 of the notes is explained.
• Midterm (Exam2) The midterm is scheduled for this coming Wed Oct 24. Material to be covered in the midterm (inclusive of the Thursday Oct 17 lecture). The midterm is open-textbook (CLRS), open course-notes (the Subjects available on the Web), and open your-notes (the notes you take in class). No other material is allowed in class. SWITCH OFF PHONES before the exams starts. Solutions for HW4 will be posted after 6pm on Tue Oct 22.
  1. Chapters 1,2,3,4
  2. Chapter 10 Elementary Data Structures.
  3. pages 123-126
  4. Chapter 6 and 7 Heapsort and QuickSort
  5. Chapter 16 Section 3 (pages 383-392) without the proofs.
  6. Appendix A and B Review of sums etc (formulas) and a review of graph theory terminology and properties of trees (binary or not).
• HHW4 and Exam1 are on the Web.
• Exam 1 A quiz (45mins,100points) is scheduled for tomorrow Thu Sep 26. It will run for the first hour of the class. The problems will be based on the material covered in the three homeworks (HW 0,1,2). Solutions for all three homeworks have already been made available on the Web.
• Two Practicals with additional exercises are available as Handouts 8 and 9. The more problems you solve the more prepared you will be for the forthcoming exams and especially for the midterm. (9/19)
• Lecture note summaries on asymptotic notation and recurrences are available in the protected area (9/19).
• HW 1 Problem 4(c) Assume that the condition on k is k>=1 rather than k>1 (stated in the homework).
• Potential e-mail problems III E-mail seems to have been restored (Wed 10:00pm Sep 11).
• Potential e-mail problems II They were a result of a particular machine being removed from DNS records; the situation hopefully has been resolved but will gradually correct itself.
• Potential e-mail problems E-mail sent today to the course e-mail address may be experiencing delays. Please send an e-mail to the instructor's account directly (alexg@cs.njit.edu). Time posted: 3:40pm on Tue Sep 10.
• HW 0 In the preface to the problems of HW0 the definition of the ceiling function was incorrect. The correct definition can be found in the textbook at the indicated page in the homework. A correction for Homework 0 has been posted in the Handouts section of this page.
• This web-page is under construction. Links may be unreliable and may point to incorrect or out-of-date information. Visit the page again after August 28, 2002.
• Two Practicals with additional exercises are available as Handouts 8 and 9. The more problems you solve the more prepared you will be for the forthcoming exams and especially for the midterm. (9/19)
• Lecture note summaries on asymptotic notation and recurrences are available in the protected area (9/19).
• HW 1 Problem 4(c) Assume that the condition on k is k>=1 rather than k>1 (stated in the homework).
• Potential e-mail problems III E-mail seems to have been restored (Wed 10:00pm Sep 11).
• Potential e-mail problems II They were a result of a particular machine being removed from DNS records; the situation hopefully has been resolved but will gradually correct itself.
• Potential e-mail problems E-mail sent today to the course e-mail address may be experiencing delays. Please send an e-mail to the instructor's account directly (alexg@cs.njit.edu). Time posted: 3:40pm on Tue Sep 10.
• HW 0 In the preface to the problems of HW0 the definition of the ceiling function was incorrect. The correct definition can be found in the textbook at the indicated page in the homework. A correction for Homework 0 has been posted in the Handouts section of this page.
• This web-page is under construction. Links may be unreliable and may point to incorrect or out-of-date information. Visit the page again after August 28, 2002.
• Past semesters Click here.