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COP5536 Advanced Data Structures

for 2009 Fall

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Nov 20: HW3

HW3 is assigned. The due day is Dec 7th for all students. For On Campus students, please turn it in during office hours. For EDGE students, please turn it in by email to COP5536fa09@gmail.com.

Nov 16: Exam 2 pick up & Score Check

	The Exam 2 is ready for pickup now. Please come to TA's office hour to get it. You can also check your score online. In Exam 2, question 1,2 are graded by Bo Li, Question 3,4 by Jianmin Chen. Regrade request should be submitted before Nov 30. After that it will not be considered. All upgraded scores will not be online until the deadline of regrade.
	Please make sure you have a tempID and also all your scores are online with it. The final grade will be decided on the scores online. Please contact TA ASAP if you didn't see your scores or tempID.

Nov 1: Video-taped class

1. There will be no lecture Friday Nov 6 as we shall be having Exam 2 that evening.

2. Dr. Sahni will be away Monday Nov. 9 and a pre-recorded lecture will be played.

Oct 29: HW2 (Project) FAQ and Extension, EXAM 2

	Please check the FAQ page here before you send questions to TAs.
	Project due time is extended by one week considering the B tree was taught not long ago. So now, for regular students, it is due Nov 9th and for EDGE students, it is due on Nov 16th, both at 11:59pm EST.
	The Exam 2 will be a 60 mins exam on Nov 6, 8:30pm to 9:30pm. Please go to room NPB 1001. It will cover up to B tree. Please bring the Gator ID with you and come on time. For the EDGE students, please return the exam by mail or fax and also email to cop5536fa09@gmail.com before 11:59pm EST on Nov 13.

Oct 12: HW1 and EXAM1 Pickup

	The HW1 and Exam 1 is ready for pickup now. Please come to TA's office hour to get it. You can also check your score online. In Exam 1, question 1,2 are graded by Yuchen Xie, Question 3,4 by Ying Xuan. In HW1, question 1,2 are graded by Bo Li and question 3,4 are graded by Kun Li. Regrade request should be submitted before Oct 30. After that it will not be considered.
	Please find the solution and grading guideline of exam 1 here. For question 4 in exam 1, please check here before you request a regrade.

Oct 8: HW2 (Project)

The Project is out. The due day is Nov 2nd. You should email your solution to cop5536fa09@gmail.com before 11:59pm on Nov 2nd eastern time. Any late submission will not be graded. The EDGE students with proctor should submit before 11:59pm eastern on Nov 9th.

Sep 28: Video-taped class

Dr. Sahni will be away October 7, 9, and 12. There will be no lecture on October 7 (in lieu of the first exam being held the evening of Oct. 2). Pre-recorded lectures will be played October 9 and 12. If the flight can not arrive on time on Oct 14, the class will also be video-taped on Oct 14.

Sep 28: HW1 solution

Please find the HW1 solution here.

Sep 22: Exam 1

The Exam 1 will be a 50 mins exam on Oct 2, 8:30pm to 9:20pm. For students with tempID<3400, please come to room WEIL 270, all other students (including those without tempID yet) should go to room FLI 50 It will cover up to Binomial heap. Please bring the Gator ID with you and come on time. For the EDGE students, please return the exam by mail or fax and also email to cop5536fa09@gmail.com before 11:59pm EST on Oct 9.

Sep 14: TempID

The TempID is online now. Please check it here.

Sep 10: HW1

HW1 is assigned. The due day is Sep 25th for all students. For On Campus students, please turn it in during office hours. For EDGE students, please turn it in by email to COP5536fa09@gmail.com.

Aug 20: General information for 2009FA students! Important!!!

Please send the following information to cop5536fa09@gmail.com: your full name, UFID(8 digits), Email address and status (Regular students who can go to classrooms on campus or EDGE students who can only watch videos online). Also, make sure your email has COP5536 as its subject. After receiving this email, you will be given a four digit TempID (has nothing to do with your UFID, just to protect your privacy) which is for you to check your scores online.

The TempID list will be online after Sep 14. If you can not see your ID there. Please send your information ASAP. Any late submission after Sep 16 will result in 0.5 point deducted from the overall score for letter grade.

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General Information

Please send your full name, UFID, and email address to TA immediately. Failure to provide this information in a timely manner may result not receiving important course information that is being communicated to the rest of the class.

Whenever you send email to TA, the email MUST have COP5536 as its subject.

If your name is on the Graduation list for this semester, then you have to send us the email about your information.

Course Reserve Materials.

1. F.P. Preparata and M.I. Shamos, "The Segment Tree " , Computational Geometry, Springer-Verlag, pp. 13-15, 1985.
2. E. McCreight, "Priority Search Trees", SIAM J. Computing, Vol. 14-2, pp. 257-276, 1985.
3. J. Bentley, "Data Structures for Range Searching", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 11-4, pp. 397-409, 1979.
4. Hanan Samet, "The Quadtree and Related Hierarchical Data Structures ", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 16-2, pp. 187-229, 1986.
The first one is not yet reserved as a course material. You only need three pages of the book.
The other three papers are now available. You can get electronic versions of them on the University of Florida Library Web site or hard copies at the circulation desk of the Marston Science Library.

Academic dishonesty

The assignments assigned for this course are not team projects.

Do not develop a program "together" with others.

Do not show or give your program to anyone.

If you are helping someone, do not help them develop the program at the computer. Discuss issues "in the air", or on paper.

Please do not cheat! Do not copy others' work!

Every individual in this class should examine the Academic Honesty Guidelines and Student Conduct Code in the University of Florida Undergraduate Catalog for more details.

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About Exam?

Exam 1 .... Oct 2 (Lecture 1-13)

up to binomial heaps.

Exam 2 .... Nov 6 (Lecture 14-23)

from Fibonacci heaps to B tree

Exam 3 .... Dec 16 (Lecture 24-40)

from B+ tree to the end of semester

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Grades for current semester

GRADES for 2009 FALL

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Class Schedule

Lecture and Exam Schedule for 2009 Fall

Week 1	August 24	August 26	August 28
Week 1	*Lecture 1*	*Lecture 2*	*Lecture 3*
Week 2	August 31	September 2	September 4
Week 2	*Lecture 4*	*Lecture 5*	*Lecture 6*
Week 3	*September 7*	September 9	September 11
Week 3	No Class	Lecture 7	Lecture 8
Week 4	September 14	September 16	September 18
Week 4	Lecture 9	Lecture 10	Lecture 11
Week 5	September 21	September 23	September 25
Week 5	Lecture 12	Lecture 13	Lecture 14 *Due date::* *Assignment 1*
Week 6	September 28	September 30	October 2
Week 6	Lecture 15	Lecture 16	*Exam 1*
Week 7	October 5	October 7	October 9
Week 7	*Lecture 17*	*Lecture 18*	*Lecture 19*
Week 8	October 12	October 14	*October 16*
Week 8	Lecture 20	Lecture 21	No Class
Week 9	October 19	October 21	October 23
Week 9	Lecture 22	Lecture 23	Lecture 24
Week 10	October 26	October 28	October 30
Week 10	Lecture 25	Lecture 26	Lecture 27
Week 11	November 2	November 4	November 6
Week 11	Lecture 28 *Due date::* *Assignment 2*	Lecture 29	Exam 2
Week 12	November 9	November 11	November 13
Week 12	Lecture 30	No Class	Lecture 31
Week 13	November 16	November 18	November 20
Week 13	Lecture 32	Lecture 33	Lecture 34
Week 14	November 23	November 25	November 27
Week 14	Lecture 35	Lecture 36	No Class
Week 15	November 30	December 2	November 4
Week 15	Lecture 37	Lecture 38	Lecture 39
Week 16	December 7	December 9
Week 16	*Lecture 40* Due date:: Assignment 3	Lecture 41

TA Information

Course email: cop5536fa09@gmail.com Please use this address for general questions

Jianmin Chen: jmchen2007@gmail.com Friday 1:30-4:30pm @ E309

Bo Li: boli@cise.ufl.edu Tuesday Period 7,8,9 @ E309

Xinyan Zha: xzha@cise.ufl.edu Monday Period 8; Wednesday Period 8,9 @ E309

Ying Xuan: yxuan@cise.ufl.edu Wednesday Period 7; Thursday Period 8,9 @ E309

Yuchen Xie: yxie@cise.ufl.edu Thursday Period 3,4,6 @ E309

Kun Li: kli@cise.ufl.edu Wednesday Period 3,5; Thursday Period 5 @ E309

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Copyright © 2009 [University of Florida]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 11.20.09 .

Announcements From TA

Table of Contents

Updating news (please check at least once per week)

Back to Top

General Information

Academic dishonesty

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About Exam?

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Grades for current semester

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Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16

Copyright © 2009 [University of Florida]. All rights reserved. Revised: 11.20.09 .

Copyright © 2009 [University of Florida]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 11.20.09 .