Lab Instructor

Mike Cooper-Stachowsky (mstachowsky@uwaterloo.ca)

Teaching Assistants

Majid Dashtbani (majid.dashtbani@uwaterloo.ca)

Sheikh Abrar Tahmid (sheikh.abrar.tahmid@uwaterloo.ca)

Prajwal Thakur (prajwal.thakur@uwaterloo.ca)

Ninghan Zhong (n5zhong@uwaterloo.ca)

Lectures, tutorials, labs

For lecture, tutorial and lab schedules, see the Undergraduate Schedule of Classes.

Makeup Lectures

We have 5 makeup lectures tetatively scheduled throughout the term. Whether they will be used will depend on the pace of the course. Students will be notified (in class & through emails) beforehand if we intend to use any of them.

Tutorials

We will walk through example problems that help students strengthen their understanding of lecture materials and prepare for exams. (Tutorials will start from the 2^nd week)

Discussion Forum

We will use Piazza for class discussions. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TAs, the lab instructor, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, you should post your questions on Piazza. The Piazza course site is here

Office Hours

Patrick: by appointment (Email me and we will set up a time)

TAs: during lab sessions & by appointment (Please email all the TAs when booking an appointment)

Textbook

We will be mostly using lecture notes posted on Learn, however, students are encouraged to use the following optional texts to supplement their learning:

Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++, 4th Ed., Addison Wesley, 2012.

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein (CLRS), Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Ed., MIT Press, 2001.

Grading