Lecture Time and Place
Tuesday, Thursday at 12:30pm to 1:45pm at Love 301.
Office Hours: Tuesday, 1:45 to 2:45pm.
Instructor: Piyush Kumar,
Love 161. Phone: 850-270-1642. Email: (piyush at acm .dot. org).
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Tathagata Mukherjee
Email: tathagata at compgeom .dot. com
Office hours: Love 206, 2:45pm to 3:45pm, Thursdays.
Course Description
This is a undergraduate course in algorithms. You will be expected to know the material taught in 4530 well. You can find more about the course in the
Course Information Handout. The midterm will be on Feb 18th, in the classroom. Final Exam is on Tuesday, April 27th at 10am. There will be four or five problem sets, one midterm, one small programming assignment, two surprise quizzes, and a final exam.
Learning Objectives
The objective of this course is to encourage you to learn how to :
- design and implement new algorithms in the real world.
- map problems to algorithmic problems.
- develop writing skills to present your own algorithms.
- collaborate and work together with other people to design new algorithms.
Class Mailing List
Announcements for the course, homeworks, reading assignments will be available using email
and the course web page. Make sure you check both the course web site and your email at least once in two days
throughout the semester. The email address we will use is the one that you have on your blackboard account.
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