Download Data Structures CS231

Data Structures
CS231
Instructor: Dr. Hammad Majeed
hammad.majeed@niit.edu.pk
Office: Academic Block 4 First Floor
Useful Information
• Course Web Site: Will be announced soon
– All the lectures, projects and assignments will be
published there
• Consulting Hour: Thu 12:00PM-1:00PM
• For the submission of the
projects/assignments mydropbox will be used
• Detailed info of mydropbox is available at
http://www.niit.edu.pk/%7Eqmr/Students/my
dropbox_student.htm
• mydropbox join code is 233mv2b55x56
Reference Books
• NOTE: There is NO Text Book
• Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ -Second Edition by Adam Drozdek
• C++ An Introduction to Data Structures by
Larry Nyhoff
• C++ plus Data Structures by Nell Dale and
David Teague
• Data Structures and Algorithms by Robert
Lafore
Marks Distribution and GradingPolicy
• Quizzes (min 6 ) (10%)
• One Hour Tests (15% each)
• Assignments/Projects (30%)
– Projects can be implemented in any language of
your choice
• Final Exam (30%)
• Grading Policy
• All the quizzes will be unannounced and there will be
no makeup quizzes
Introduction to Data Structures
• What is Data ?
– Any useful information – that can be stored or
memorized for future reference
• In an organization it can be
– Employee’s name, sex, age, department, address so on
• In Railway reservation office
– Passenger name, traveling date, traveling time, seat number
so on
• In Computers
– Set of integers, Structure(s) or any other user defined data
type
Abstract Data Types (ADT)
• This is a higher level, domain and operations
independent specification of data
– While working on an “integer” type we don’t
worry about its low level implementation (can be
32 bit, or 64 bit number)
– Distance = rate * time (rate and time can be of
type integer or real numbers)
– Employee record means same to the bosses of
two different organizations, no matter how
differently they are stored by the admin officers
Data Structures
• Collection of data in an ordered fashion
– Ages of the students in a class are all numbers (data),
but once are grouped in one line, one after the other
becomes structured data (arrays)
– Age, class, sex, height, weight of a student is all data,
but if we place them in one line per student it would
be structured data (structures/struct)
– Arrays, list, queues, stack, doubly linked lists,
structures etc are all data structures
• Different operations are defined for each type of
data structure to add, delete or modify its
content
Algorithms
• The operations defined on the data structures are
generally knows as algorithms
• For each data structure there has to be defined
algorithms
• Algorithms are normally used to add, delete, modify,
sort items of a data structure
• All programming languages are generally equipped
with conventional data structures and algorithms.
• New data structures and the algorithms for
manipulation can be defined by the user