Notices

  • Supplementary Exam

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Monday 11 January 2021, 08:07:46 AM.

    I have sent emails to all the students taking the supplementary exam. In case you have not received an email from me, let me know.

  • Reminder: Need to submit by 5pm!

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 04 December 2020, 02:35:57 PM.

    All the required information for the questions is already provided in the Final Exam and also in the Final Exam Clarifications/Corrections page. Considering this is the exam, we cannot offer more explanations! Please answer the questions with the best of your understanding and ability. All the best for your exam.

    You need to submit all your answers by 5pm today.

  • Read the Clarifications/Correction page

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 04 December 2020, 12:40:30 PM.

    Please read the following page before sending an email, most of the queries are already answered there.

    Final Exam Clarifications/Corrections

    .

  • Clarification

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 04 December 2020, 10:55:52 AM.

    [10:54am] (clarification) Are we allowed to use the queue ADT from the labs to implement BFS in question 3?
    Yes, please provide a reference in your comments. Important: You can only submit one file, rankPopularity.c. So all your code must be in this file .

  • COMP2521 (20T3) Final Exam

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 04 December 2020, 09:00:15 AM.

    COMP2521 (20T3) Final Exam is now available.

    In case you have any queries during the exam, please send an email to cs2521@cse.unsw.edu.au .

    Important:

    • If there is a correction, we will post it on the correction page . So please check your email and also the correction page for any corrections during the exam.
    • Piazza posts are not allowed and will be ignored during the exam.
    • All queries should go to cs2521@cse.unsw.edu.au .
    • You can submit multiple times, your last submissions will be marked. So, once you are happy with your solutions, please submit them. DO NOT wait until the last minutes! You can always re-submit before the deadline.
    • Even after you finish the exam, do not communicate your exam answers to anyone, at any point. Some students have extended time to complete the exam.
    • Do not place your exam work in any location accessible to any other person. This includes services such as Dropbox and Github.
    • Ensure no other person in your household can access your work.
    • Your zpass should not be disclosed to any other person. If you have disclosed your zpass , you should change it immediately.

  • Pre Exam Consultation

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Monday 30 November 2020, 08:37:34 AM.

    Pre Exam consultation: at 10:00am to 10:30am (will be extended if required) on Wednesday 02 December, on Blackboard Collaborate.

  • Answers for the "Sample Final Exam Multiple Choice Questions"

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 24 November 2020, 06:25:48 PM, last modified Wednesday 25 November 2020, 10:18:58 AM.

    Answers for the " Sample Final Exam Multiple Choice Questions " are now available.

    There was one copy/paste error, see here .

  • Pre Exam Consultation

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 24 November 2020, 10:41:26 AM.

    Pre Exam consultation: at 11:30am to 12:15pm (will be extended if required) on Thursday 26 November, on Blackboard Collaborate.

  • Final Quiz (Quiz 7) is available

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 10 November 2020, 05:07:54 PM.

    The final quiz ( Quiz 7 ) is now available. It is due at 5pm Thursday of Week-10 (5pm, 19 Nov). Please note that the topics related to the last two questions (Linear probing and Trie) will be covered in the next lecture on Monday of Week-10.

  • Today's lecture: Sample Final Exam and Assignment-2 (Part-2)​

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 03 November 2020, 05:29:32 PM.

    In today's lecture (03/Nov), we discussed two important topics: Sample Final Exam and Assignment-2 (Part-2) . In case you did not attend the lecture, I strongly recommend you to watch the recording.

    In case you haven't started working on Assignment-2 (Part-2), you must do it asap!

  • Sample Final Exam

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 03 November 2020, 09:01:51 AM.

    Sample Final Exam is now available. We will discuss it today (03 Nov) in the lecture.

  • Deadline extended: Assignment-1 and Quiz 4

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 27 October 2020, 08:17:43 AM, last modified Tuesday 27 October 2020, 08:32:34 AM.

    The last night WebCMS was down for some time, so we have extended the deadlines for Assignment-1 and Quiz 4 by one day, both are now due at 9am 28 October 2020. Please try to submit your quiz and assignment during the working hours (9am to 5pm) to avoid such issues, thanks.

  • Quiz 4 - available now

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Wednesday 14 October 2020, 07:29:34 PM.

    Quiz 4 is now available. It is due at 9am Tuesday, 27 October 2020 (Tuesday of Week-7).

  • Quiz 4 - available on Wednesday

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Monday 12 October 2020, 07:32:42 AM.

    Quiz 4 will be available on Wednesday of Week-5, and due on Monday of Week-7.

  • Quiz 3 - available now

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 09 October 2020, 10:28:53 AM.

    Quiz 3 is available now. It is due Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 11:00AM.

  • Quiz 3 availability and due date

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Thursday 08 October 2020, 02:57:18 PM.

    Sorry for the delay in releasing Quiz 3, it will be available tonight and will be due at 10am Wednesday of week-5. Considering we missed one lecture this week due to the public holiday, I wanted to make sure that we only include topics covered in the Tuesday lecture. However this week I have been unexpectedly very busy and I have not yet finished the quiz. You will still have five full days to complete your quiz 3. Hope this clarifies.

  • Help Sessions

    Posted by Kevin Luxa 🦉 Thursday 01 October 2020, 07:18:50 PM.

    Dear students,

    The help session times have been updated on the Help Sessions page.

  • Assignment-1, Week-04 Lecture and Tut/Lab

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 29 September 2020, 12:00:01 PM, last modified Tuesday 29 September 2020, 12:49:35 PM.

    • Assignment-1 is now available. We briefly discussed it at the end of the lecture today (29 Sept).
    • Monday of Week-04 is a public holiday, there will not be any formal lecture on Monday of Week-04.
    • If your tutorial/lab is on Monday, during week-04, please attend one of the other tut/labs on the rest of the weekdays.
    • Quiz-1 marks are now available.

  • Quiz 1 : corrections, please re-submit your answers

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Tuesday 22 September 2020, 01:53:59 AM.

    The base case was missing in questions 3 and 4! I have now added the following at the start of the algorithms for questions 3 and 4.

     if (lo >= hi) return;

    Please re-submit your answers for all four questions of Quiz-1 . Please note that you can submit multiple times, and only your latest submission will be marked.

  • Quiz 1 is now available.

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Monday 21 September 2020, 05:26:00 PM.

    As discussed in the lecture today, Quiz 1 is now available (see "Quiz" , under " Activities " in the left panel). The due date is 5pm Friday of Week-02. You can submit multiple times , your latest submissions will be marked. Please note that the rest of the quizzes will be available at 11am on Monday and due at 5pm on Friday, of the respective weeks. All the best.

  • COMP2521 (20T3) Online Lectures - how to access

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 11 September 2020, 01:27:11 PM, last modified Sunday 13 September 2020, 11:10:09 PM.

    Lectures will be delivered on Blackboard Collaborate , and the recordings will also be available on Blackboard Collaborate. Please click on " Online Lectures, Tutorials and Labs " for more information on how to access them. See you at 9am on Monday 14 Sept 2020.


  • Welcome to COMP2521 (Data Structures and Algorithms) in 20T3 !

    Posted by Ashesh Mahidadia Friday 11 September 2020, 10:20:30 AM.

    Welcome to COMP2521 (Data Structures and Algorithms) !

    The course outline is now available, please see the link Course Outline in the left panel. Please read it all, and ask questions in the first lecture on anything that's not clear.

    COMP2521 does not use Moodle. The course website is at https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP2521/20T3 . We recommend that you bookmark the page. The course material will be available on this website.

    Tutorials and Labs start in Week-1. The tutorial and lab for week-01 are now available. See Tutorials and Labs in the left panel on the course website. You need to login using your zId and zPass to access the following course material. The login button is in the top right corner of this page.

    See you in the first lecture!

    -- Ashesh


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