UO Applied Data Structures

Course aim

To develop skills in selecting and implementing appropriate data structures and algorithms to develop software to solve problems.

Course content

Topics covered in this course include: the programming environment; integrated development environments, commenting and the JavaDoc tool; the Java API; inheritance; interfaces and abstract classes; polymorphism; use of Inheritance in advanced data structures; exceptions and exception handling; fundamental algorithms (searching, sorting, hash tables, binary search trees, representing graphs, graph traversals, shortest path, transitive closure, minimum spanning tree, topological sorting, simple numerical algorithms, string and pattern matching); advanced file IO: NIO, object serialisation.

Textbooks

Koffman, E.B., Wolfgang, P.A.T. 2016, Data Structures: Abstraction and Design using Java, 3, John Wiley & Sons

Prerequisites

Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
Group 1 Student must complete one of the following courses
COMP 1048	UO Object Oriented Programming
COMP 1046	Object Oriented Programming

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY
Online	10 weeks x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Programming exercise, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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