Course meeting time: TR 11:00-12:15, place: 114 Pearson Hall
Saunders' office hours are 10-11am on Tuesdays and 9-10am Fridays in room 414 Smith Hall. Other meeting times can be easily arranged by email (please suggest a time when you first contact me).
Teaching Assistant:
Sophie Che
Email: fei@cis.udel.edu
Office hours in room 103 Smith Hall:
10am-11, Mondays and Wednesdays
Text: Skienna, The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2010
References:
Basse and Van Gelder, Computer Algorithms , Addison Wesley, 2000.
Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, McGraw-Hill & MIT Press, 1990.
Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani, Algorithms, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Goodrich and Tamassia, Algorithm Design: Foundations, Analysis, and Internet Examples, Wiley, 2002.
Kleinberg and Tardos, Algorithm Design, Addison Wesley, 2006
Sedgewick, Algorithms in C++, Addison Wesley, 1992.
Assignments will be distributed throughout the semester, for the most part on a bi-weekly basis and due on a Tuesday. Homework is due by 4:30 on the date given. Homework received after this but before 4:30 on the next class day (normally a Thursday) has a 20% penalty. Homework received after that but before the second following class (normally a Tuesday) receives a 40% penalty. After this point we return graded homeworks and no longer accept late homework. Timeliness on assignments is important for your understanding of the material. This is not a subject that is effectively learned with periods of neglect and periods of cramming.
The course homepage will contain a frequently updated record of homework and reading assignments and synopsis of lecture topics.
There will be
Exams, pencil and paper exercises, and programming assignments are intended to measure your individual performance and accomplishments in the course. The writeup and organization of the solutions you submit must be entirely your own. You may consult books, papers, and web sources for ideas. However this is not necessary or recommended. Solutions you discover for your self, you own. They are much more memorable for exam time and for later life. Plagerism from other students in the course or from anyone else is not tolerated and will be prosecuted in the UD judicial system.
Corrections, suggestions and comments to saunders@udel.edu