CSCI 136

Data Structures  & Advanced Programming

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Instructor:Prof. Stephen Freund
Email: freund@cs.williams.edu
Phone: x4260
Office: TPL 302 (top floor of Physics, facing West College)
Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday 2:30-4
Lectures: MWF 9-9:50 in Jessup 206
Labs: W 1-4 in TCL 217a

TAs: Jessica Chung, Austin Stanley, Ben Wood
TA Hours: Sunday 8-10, Monday 7:30-12:30, Thursday 10-12

Course Description

This course couples work on program design, analysis, and verification with an introduction to the study of data structures. Data structures capture common ways in which to store and manipulate data, and they are important in the construction of sophisticated computer programs. We will use the Java programming language in class and for the assignments.

Students will be expected to write several programs, ranging from very short programs to more elaborate systems. Since one of our goals in this course is to teach you how to write large, reliable programs composed from reusable pieces, we will be emphasizing the development of clear, modular programs that are easy to read, debug, verify, analyze, and modify.