Your COMP2521 (23T0 Summer Term) Supplementary Exam will be held on Saturday, 11th February, from 13:45 to 17:00 , in Bongo Lab (Ground floor, room G07, building K17) . Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the time given and wait outside the lab until instructed to enter.
The Supplementary Exam condition and criteria will be similar to the final Exam. Please note that you can only take the Supplementary Exam if you are offered the supplementary exam by the special consideration unit; otherwise, you cannot take the supplementary exam.
Important things to bring to an In-Person Exam
Pre Exam consultation will be on Friday at 11:30am, on Teams, click here for the consultation link on Teams.
We discussed a few final exam-related questions during the Week 5 Tuesday lecture (the last lecture). If you need clarification regarding the final exam, please watch the video.
Please use Help Sessions and the Ed forum if you have any queries; we are here to help you.
Time passes quickly; it’s only a week from your exam following Monday, 06 February 2023.
I hope you are progressing well on your assignment; please seek help if you have any difficulties; there are many Help Sessions available this week, and of course, you can use Ed forum 24/7!
If you have not already done so, please carefully read all instructions and visit the following link to see where you will sit for the final exam:
Final Exam Seat Allocation
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In today's lecture, we will discuss Tries , followed by Performance Analysis and a Course Review. In addition, we will answer any questions you may have about the course and the final exam. We will have covered everything you need for your final exam at the end of today's lecture, so begin preparing for your final exam in 7 days. Please use the Ed forum and Help Sessions for clarifications.
See you at 2pm today.
We will review the
Sample Exam
and any questions you may have about your final exam in today's lecture (Wednesday, January 25).
Your final exam seating allocation is now available. Please go to the following page, carefully read all of the instructions, and find out where you will sit for the final test.
https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~exam/23T0/seating/register.cgi/allocations/
Welcome to Week 3. This week's lectures will cover sorting algorithms and three well-known ADTs: heaps, hashing, and priority queue. We will begin by discussing some of the most fundamental and often used sorting algorithms, then go on to more efficient ones, and conclude with the ADTs. Please continue your excellent work on the assignment.
If you have any queries or issues, please let us know by posting in the forum or coming to a help session. To be successful in your real-world endeavours, you will need the self-assurance that comes from finishing such an assignment.
This week, lectures will be held as scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday .
Important : Please pay attention to the lectures (recordings from 22T3) that provide hands-on demonstrations and examples of how to develop programmes for linked lists, trees, and graph ADTs. After that, try to complete the Practice Exercises for all three ADTs. If you have any difficulty understanding the concepts, please seek help via the Forum and Help Sessions.
Later this week, the Sample Exam Paper will be available. There will be Multiple Choice questions, Short answer questions, and three programming questions (one each on the linked list, tree, and graph ADT) in your final exam. Please refer to the Practice Exercises for sample programming questions.
A reminder that today's lecture on teams will be at
3pm
on
Friday
,
January 20
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Just a friendly reminder that today's lecture on teams will be at 5 pm on Tuesday, January 17.
The changes listed below are only for Week 3. The following are the revised times for Week 3 lectures:
Please notice that there will be no lectures on Monday from 2 to 5 p.m. and Tuesday from 2 to 5 p.m., as previously scheduled. The lectures will resume at the scheduled times beginning in Week 4.
We have scheduled some help sessions starting tomorrow (Tuesday 10th January), mostly online. Please see here for the schedule (or "Help Sessions" in the WebCMS sidebar), and check in every now and then for more sessions as we add them.
In-person sessions are on-campus, generally in the CSE lab. Online sessions will be run through Blackboard Collaborate, which can be accessed through Moodle.
As per the schedule, today's (Wednesday's) lecture will begin at 3 p.m. Sydney time. If you missed yesterday's first lecture , please watch it (see under " Summer Term Livestream Raw Recordings " at Lectures, Resources ). We covered many important aspects of this course and addressed the majority of your questions.
If you are having trouble logging into the Ed forum, refer to this slide .
Please refer to these slides for information regarding the final exam and course assessments: Course Assessments , Final Exam . Please note that this term, there will be no online exams.
See you at 3 pm today.
The first lecture will be at 2 pm Tuesday (03 Jan) Sydney time. All lectures will be delivered online on Teams . Please see Lectures, Resources for the required web links.
We will explain the course outline and address any questions you may have about the course at the start of the first lecture. I look forward to meeting all of you soon!
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/COMP2521/23T0/ . 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, Labs and Quizzes 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.
Lectures will be delivered live on Microsoft Teams Webinar . The required links for the live lectures will be available on the Lectures, Resources page on Monday of Week-1. Lecture recordings will be available later on the Lectures, Resources page.
All of the lecture notes as well as previous video lectures are already available. Please read/watch them ahead of time because we need to cover a lot of ground in five weeks! During the online lectures, we can focus on answering any questions you may have about the content for that week.
Five weeks will go by very quickly, so please do not leave any materials behind. In the first lecture, I will talk more about these and other topics.
Looking forward to the start of the term on Tuesday 03 January 2023!
-- Ashesh