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Welcome to CSCI 255 --- Winter 2024
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**NOTE:** All posted/mentioned times mentioned related to this course are in Atlantic Time. 

This course provides a deep investigation of foundational data structures and algorithms. Criteria for selecting appropriate data structures and algorithms for a given problem are presented. General problem solving is emphasized throughout the course. Specific topics include stacks, queues, lists, trees, searching, sorting, traversals, recursion, graphs, hashing, and complexity analysis.


Professors
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*  Dr. Jean-Alexis Delamer
*  jdelamer at stfx.ca

Class Times
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**Lecture Section**

*  Monday     10:30am -- 11:15am
*  Wednesday   9:30am -- 10:15am
*  Friday      8:30am --  9:15am

**Lab Section**

*  Tuesday     3:30pm --  5:15pm


Office Hours
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*  Monday      9:00am -- 10:00pm
*  Tuesday     1:00pm --  3:00pm
*  Thursday    9:30am -- 10:30am
  

.. toctree::
    :caption: Course Notes
    :maxdepth: 1
    :numbered:

    topics/algorithm-analysis/algorithm-analysis
    topics/trees/review
    topics/heaps/heaps
    topics/heaps/binomial
    topics/trees/avl
    topics/trees/red-black-trees
    topics/trees/b-trees
    topics/hashing/hashing
    topics/hashing/hashing_probing
    topics/hashing/hashing_O
    topics/graph/graph
    topics/graph/graph_algorithm
    topics/graph/dijkstra
    topics/graph/astar
    topics/graph/network_flow
    topics/sorting/sorting
    topics/sorting/mergesort



.. toctree::
    :caption: Labs
    :maxdepth: 1
    :numbered:

    labs/java_review/review
    labs/algorithm_analysis/analysis
    labs/trees/review
    labs/heaps/heaps
    labs/trees/avl
    labs/trees/rbt
    labs/hashing/hashing
    labs/hashing/quad_double_hashing
    labs/graph/graph
    labs/graph/graph_algorithm
    

.. toctree::
    :caption: Assignments
    :maxdepth: 1
    :numbered:

    asn/coffee
    asn/movie
    asn/sentiment
    asn/maze

    

.. toctree::
    :caption: Course Outline
    :maxdepth: 1

    outline
   
Useful links
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*  Learning Java: `CSCI-162 <http://modsurski.com/csci162/>`_
*  Installing Java: `Getting set up (CSCI-162) <http://modsurski.com/csci162/getting-set/getting-set.html>`_

.. Indices and tables
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    * :ref:`genindex`
    * :ref:`modindex`
    * :ref:`search`