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CSE 50502 : Transition to Data Structures & Algorithms
Fall 2026


Here is this semester's tentative schedule; I will update it as the semester progresses.

Please note that lecture notes are provided as a supplement, and are NOT a substitute for attending lecture. In particular, these are not guaranteed, so expect technical difficulties to prevent them from being posted at least a few times in the semester; they also will not contain exercises whose solutions are worked out on the board in class. Please plan accordingly to either take notes or get them from a friend if necessary.
Date Topic Reading Lecture Notes Extra links (if any)
Monday August 24 Introduction and overview Lecture Notes
Wednesday August 26 Logic and sets
Friday August 28 Proofs
Monday August 31 Asymptotics
Wednesday September 2 Algorithms and pseudocode
Friday September 4 Proofs of correctness
Wednesday September 9 Induction
Friday September 11 Recursion
Monday September 14 Recurrences
Wednesday September 16 Recurrences (cont)
Friday September 18 Sorting
Monday September 21 Arrays and lists
Wednesday September 23 Amortized analysis
Friday September 25 Stacks and queues
Monday September 28 Hashing
Wednesday Septmeber 30 Hashing (cont)
Friday October 2 Trees
Monday October 5 Tree traversals, BSTs
Wednesday October 7 Balanced BSTs
Friday October 9 Graph theory
Monday October 12 Graph representations
Review for exam
Friday October 16 Midterm
Monday October 26 Graph traversals: DFS and BFS
Wednesday October 28 DAGs
Friday October 30 Topological sort
Monday November 2 Greedy Algorithms
Wednesday November 4 Greedy algorithms
Friday November 6 Greedy Algorithms
Monday November 9 Greedy Approximation
Wednesday November 11 Dynamic Programming
Friday November 13 Dynamic Programming
Monday November 16 Dynamic Programming
Wednesday November 18 Dynamic Programming
Friday November 20 Computability and undecidability
Monday November 23 Complexity theory
Monday November 30 Complexity
Wednesday December 2 Complexity
Friday December 4 Complexity
Monday December 7
Wednesday December 9 Review