Algorithms 2005-06
Principal lecturer: Dr Keir Fraser
Taken by: Part IA (50% option), Part IA (25% option)
Notes
The notes are available in PDF, 1up, Postscript, 1up, and Postscript, 2up formats. Simple C implementations of all the comparison-based sorting methods are available in PDF, 2up and Postscript, 2up formats, or as the original C source file.
The lecture slides are also available, although incomplete! I will continue to update the link on this page to the latest version of the slides as they become ready. You may download in PDF or Postscript format.
Other resources
Past questions
A large range of suitable questions from the IB Data Structures and Algorithms course can be found
online.
Going back as far as 1997, the following
questions can reasonably be attempted after attending the appropriate lectures:
- 05/6/1 (algorithm construction)
- 05/4/3 (hashing)
- 04/4/3 (splay trees)
- 03/4/3 (hashing)
- 03/3/3 (heapsort)
- 02/4/4 (shellsort)
- 01/3/5 (quicksort, order statistsics)
- 00/3/5 (order statistics)
- 99/6/1 (splay trees, hashing)
- 99/5/1 (heapsort)
- 98/3/6 (heaps)
- 97/3/6 (algorithm construction).
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