Data Structures

By Dr.S.Sasikala, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Institute of distance Education University of Madras. | University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Learners enrolled: 10511

1. To teach efficient storage mechanisms of data for an easy access.

2. To design and implementation of various basic and advanced data structures.

3. To introduce various techniques for representation of the data in the real world.

4. To develop application using data structures.

5. To teach the concept of protection and management of data.

6. To improve the efficiency of algorithm by using suitable data structure.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Computer Science and Engineering
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	30 Jan 2021
End Date :	26 Apr 2021
Enrollment Ends :	28 Feb 2021
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Week 1

Introduction to List

Array and Linked List - Stack Implementation using array and linked list - Applications of Stack

Week 2

Queue Implementation - Application of Queues

Trees and Terminologies - Tree Traversals

Week 3

In order Traversal-Binary Search Tree - Implementation of Search Algorithm

Week 4

AVL Tree Insertion, Deletion

Week 5

Graph representation, Shortest Path Algorithm

Week 6

Sorting, Heap Techniques, Hashing

Week 7

Sorting Algorithms, Divide and Conquer algorithms

Selection Sort, Brute force sort, Bubble Sort

Week 8

Insertion Sort, Quick sort applications
Prim's Algorithm, Kruskal's Algorithm

Week 9

Bucket Sorting, Radix Sort, Merge Sort

Week 10

Directories and Contiguous allocation, File maintenance

Week 11

External Sorting, Cascade Merge Sort

Week 12

B + Tree maintenance and efficiency, Construction of B-tree, B+tree insertion and deletion

Books and references

1. Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ M.A.Weiss.

2. Fundamentals of Data Structures in C++ by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, Dinesh Mehta.

3. Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest.

4. Data Structures and Algorithms, by Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman.

5. http://www.dave-reed.com/csc427.F04/

6. http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rada/CSCE3110/

7. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~matias/ds03.html

Instructor bio

Dr. S. Sasikala, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Institute of distance Education University of Madras. She has 22 years of teaching experience and coordinating for all Computer related courses with dedication and sincerity.

She has been an active Chair in various Board of Studies meetings held at the Institution. She has participated in Administrative activities and shows her enthusiastic participation's in research activities in guiding research scholars, writing and editing text books and publishing articles in many reputed journals consistently.