Computer Laboratory

Course pages 2016–17

Algorithms

Lectures

Mon-Wed-Fri 1000-1100 in Mill Lane Lecture Room 9, from Fri 2017-01-20 to Wed 2017-03-15 inclusive (12 with FMS + 12 with DJW = 24 lectures).

Lecture handout

  • For lectures 1–12: Distributed during the first lecture. A [pdf] is also available. Write to the author if you discover any errors and you'll be credited in the next edition.
  • For §5.1–5.10: Distributed in lecture 13, and available as [pdf]
  • For §5.11–5.13: Distributed in lecture 17, and available as [pdf]
  • For §6: Distributed in lecture 20, and available as [pdf]
  • For §7: Distributed in lecture 24, and available as [pdf]
  • Dijkstra's algorithm

It will be to your advantage to bring the handouts to every lecture, together with a notebook with non-detachable pages and a few coloured pens. Further printed copies of the handouts are available from the student administration office in the William Gates Building.

Errata Corrige

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PageLineErrata CorrigeReported onby
70-7rotated is n edgerotated is an edge2017-02-06author
10211If it hasn'tIf it isn't2017-05-03author
§5.6 Problem statement for every pair of vertices for every vertex v compute the weight of the minimal-weight path from s to v 2017-02-17 Jakub Perlin
Example sheet week 5 Question 5 O(V+E) O(E+V log V) 2017-02-20
Example sheet week 5 Question 6 assert w.active == True assert (w.active == True) or (w is not v's first neighbour) 2017-02-24 Adam Kucz
§5.10 top of page Kruskal [...] has the same running time [as Prim's algorithm] Delete the comment about running time 2017-03-01
§5.12, in Graphs part 2 Page 6 half way down either f(v→w)<c(v→w) or f(v→w)>0 either f(v→w)<c(v→w) or f(w→v)>0 2017-03-01
§5.12, in Graphs part 2 Page 8 3rd paragraph total running time is O(E V F*) total running time is O(E f*) 2017-03-03
§6.2, in Adv.Data Page 7 line 6 of code snippet newroots[x.degree] = null newroots[x.degree-1] = null 2017-03-08 A. Student
§6.2, in Adv.Data page 8 equations for total amortized cost -Φ(S0)+c1+Φ(S0) -Φ(S0)+c1+Φ(S1) 2017-03-08 A. Student
§6.2, in Adv.Data page 8 equations for total amortized cost +Φ(S0)-Φ(Sk) -Φ(S0)+Φ(Sk) 2017-03-08 A. Student
§6.1, in Adv.Data page 3 line 17 of code snippet making the smaller child a root of the larger making the larger child a root of the smaller 2017-04-09 J. Perlin
§7.2, in Geometry page 3 description of algorithm If two points have the same smallest angle, use the one that's furthest from p If two points have the same smallest angle, use the one that's furthest from q 2017-05-30 J. Hargreaves

Supervisions

We are happy when people use the homebrew online Otter system, which is still somewhat experimental. Please help us make it work for you by providing constructive feedback on how it could be improved. Alternatively, here are exercise sheets in pdf.

  • Legacy exercise sheet, covering the first half of the course [pdf]
  • Exercise sheet for week 5 [pdf]
  • Exercise sheet for week 6 [pdf]
  • Exercise sheet for weeks 7/8 [pdf]
  • Exercise sheet for week 8 [pdf]

Past exam questions for Algorithms I, Algorithms II, Data Structures and Algorithms and Algorithms may be of interest. If you want to own this material rather than just memorize it, attempt the questions as seriously as if you were taking the exam yourself and do not open the solution notes until after having irrevocably committed (no more changes) to your own solution. The best students already understand the wisdom of this advice; for the others, yeah, the pressure is high, the temptation is strong, the flesh is weak...

If you are a supervisor

Thanks for supervising. Please email frank dot stajano hyphen hyphen algs @cl.cam.ac.uk with your CRSID and ask your supervisor to tell Frank that she or he agrees that you should be supervising this course. You will then be granted access to the "information for supervisors" tab and added to the list of people who should know about supervisor-relevant stuff.

Microchallenges

2017-01-30: microchallenge 1

My heroes!

  • Sompob Shanokprasith
  • Alicja Chaszczewicz *
  • Krzysztof Zamarski
  • Vlad Badelita
  • Huiyao Zheng *
  • Martin Gazo
  • Matteo G. Pozzi

...and also these latecomers...

  • Adam Kucz *
  • Zhipeng Wang

2017-02-06: microchallenge 1 bis

My heroes!

  • Vlad Badelita
  • Zhipeng Wang
  • Sompob Shanokprasith
  • Huiyao Zheng *
  • Alicja Chaszczewicz *
  • Adam Kucz *
  • Matteo G. Pozzi
  • Krzysztof Zamarski

2017-02-10: microchallenge 2

My heroes!

  • Zijun Joe Yan
  • David Chong
  • Alicja Chaszczewicz *
  • Huiyao Zheng *
  • Keith Collister
  • Adam Kucz *

2017-02-13: microchallenge 3

My heroes!

  • Jesús Arjona Martínez
  • Thien Thanh BUI (Albert)
  • Thomas Gessey-Jones
  • Sean Seet
  • Alonso J. Campos-Hernandez
  • Zhipeng Wang
  • David Chong
  • Huiyao Zheng *
  • Dan Seremet
  • Adam Kucz *
  • Alicja Chaszczewicz *
  • István Kádár
  • Krzysztof Zamarski

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