| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction and document distance | ||
| L1 | Introduction and document distance | CLRS, chapters 1-3 |
| L2 | More document distance, mergesort | CLRS, sections 11.1-11.2 |
| Binary search trees | ||
| L3 | Airplane scheduling, binary search trees | CLRS, chapter 10 and sections 12.1-12.3 |
| L4 | Balanced binary search trees | CLRS, sections 13.1 and 13.2 for a different approach (red-black trees) |
| Hashing | ||
| L5 | Hashing I: chaining, hash functions | |
| L6 | Hashing II: table doubling, Karp-Rabin | CLRS, chapter 17 and section 32.2 |
| L7 | Hashing III: open addressing | CLRS, section 11.4 (and 11.3.3 and 11.5 if interested) |
| Sorting | ||
| L8 | Sorting I: heaps | CLRS, sections 2.1-2.3 and 6.1-6.2 |
| L9 | Sorting II: heaps | CLRS, sections 6.1-6.4 |
| L10 | Sorting III: lower bounds, linear-time sorting | CLRS, sections 8.1-8.4 |
| L11 | Sorting IV: stable sorting, radix sort | |
| Searching | ||
| L12 | Searching I: graph search, representations, and applications | CLRS, sections 22.1-22.3 and B.4 |
| L13 | Searching II: breadth-first search and depth-first search | CLRS, sections 22.2-22.3 |
| L14 | Searching III: topological sort and NP-completeness | CLRS, sections 22.4 and 34.1-34.3 (at a high level) |
| Shortest paths | ||
| L15 | Shortest paths I: intro | CLRS, chapter 24 (intro) |
| L16 | Shortest paths II: Bellman-Ford | |
| L17 | Shortest paths III: Dijkstra | CLRS, sections 24.2-24.3 |
| L18 | Shortest paths IV: Dijkstra speedups |
|
| Dynamic programming | ||
| L19 | Dynamic programming I: memoization, Fibonacci, Crazy Eights, guessing | CLRS, chapter 15 |
| L20 | Dynamic programming II: longest common subsequence, parent pointers | |
| L21 | Dynamic programming III: text justification, parenthesization, knapsack, pseudopolynomial time, Tetris training | |
| L22 | Dynamic programming IV: piano fingering, structural DP (trees), vertex cover, dominating set, and beyond | For fun, see papers on piano fingering and polyphonic piano fingering via DP: Parncutt, Richard, et al. "An Ergonomic Model of Keyboard Fingering for Melodic Fragments." Music Perception 14, no. 4 (1997): 341-382. Al Kasimi, Alia, Eric Nichols, and Christopher Raphael. "A Simple Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Polyphonic Piano Fingerings." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 2007, pp. 355-356. For fun, watch the Metamorphosis of the Cube video, which illustrates a folding DP. |
| Numerics | ||
| L23 | Numerics I | |
| L24 | Numerics II | |
| Beyond 6.006 | ||
| L25 | Beyond 6.006: follow-on classes, geometric folding algorithms | |
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In the table below, readings listed as CLRS are taken from the course textbook:
Cormen, Thomas, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262032933.