NOTE: This offering of CS161 ran Fall 2017 and is no long active. Please check the Stanford course catalog for the current/next offering of CS161.
Instructor: Mary Wootters
When and where? M/W 1:30 - 2:50pm, Building 370, Room 370.
Course Description: This course will cover the basic approaches and mindsets for analyzing and designing algorithms and data structures. Topics include the following: Worst and average case analysis. Recurrences and asymptotics. Efficient algorithms for sorting, searching, and selection. Data structures: binary search trees, heaps, hash tables. Algorithm design techniques: divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, amortized analysis, randomization. Algorithms for fundamental graph problems: minimum-cost spanning tree, connected components, topological sort, and shortest paths. Possible additional topics: network flow, string searching.
Prerequisites: CS 103 or CS 103B; CS 109 or STATS 116.
What do I need to do? Seven homework assignments, a midterm, and a final. See the Course Policies for more details.