Data Structures! What are they, and why do we care? Here is a short blog post on this question, and here is a 6-minute video on the same topic.

Also read the book's "Why this Book?" and "Preface to the C++ Edition."

This course will be organized using the principles of Team-Based Learning (TBL). Read this in order to get a sense of how the class is going to run.

If you want to be able to keep track of your grades during the semester, and to receive emails from me, please fill out this short survey by September 15. (After that date, I will not be adding anyone to the online grading system.)

Here is the email I sent before classes started, and the slides from our first class meeting.

Read sections 12.1, 12.2, and 12.4 of C++ Annotations. I do not expect you to absorb everything in 12.4! I want you to start to be aware of what C++ offers — we'll be coming back to this material several times. The tables here offer another perspective on this material.

Read this to get more detailed information about installing g++ and make on your own machine. I'll also be posting information soon about accessing the College's Linux machines, if you prefer to use g++ that way.

Here will be the link to the Exercise 0 instructions.

Review the documentation for stack, array, set, and unordered_set at the STL reference.

Here are the Exercise 1 instructions.

Today we'll also decide on peer evaluation criteria.

Read Chapter 2. The RAT will be on sections 2.1—2.3.

The discussion, particularly the animations, here may help you with section 2.3. Note that this text uses slightly different terminology, but only a bit. Don't worry about the Java code (unless reading it helps you understand!); focus on the animations and the little 'exercises' at the end.