Welcome, everyone!

Course Description

• Basic Algorithms and Data Structures: Design and analysis of basic algorithms and data structures; algorithm analysis methods, searching and sorting algorithms, basic data structures, graphs and concurrency.

Web Directory

• Home Page — this page
• Learning Goals — Point-by-point guideline to the skills, concepts, and material you need to master in the course.
• Schedule — schedule of lectures/tutorials
• Administration — the syllabus with a staff list, grading and collaboration policy, etc.
• Readings — required textbook names, supplemental textbook and reading suggestions
• Lab/Lecture Notes — archive of notes and "handouts" (usually electronic!) from lab and lecture
• Assignments — archive of all assigned work; for solutions, generally see Piazza
• Computing — information about computing for this course, especially g++ and UNIX.

Other Links

• Handback — use this link (with your ugrad.cs.ubc.ca login) to collect returned exam scans
• Piazza — We are using Piazza for course communication. You must sign up for CPSC 221's Piazza section and read at least the announcements daily, but you may use a throwaway e-mail address and a pseudonym to sign up if you do not want identifying information stored outside Canada. (You need the signup key to sign up. Didn't get the e-mail that had it? Ask in class or lab!)
  (For private enquiries or those that may violate academic conduct standards, e-mail your instructor
• PeerWise — We'll be using PeerWise this semester. You will be generating your own multiple-choice questions and sharing them with one another. Our aim is to empower you to think about ways of evaluating understanding of a learning goal while having the opportunity to gauge your own understanding of it in the process. Use of PeerWise enables you to get immediate feedback on your work and allows you to compare yourself to your peers. In addition, by using crowdsourcing, we can create a pool of high-quality multiple-choice questions that can be used in the future offerings of the course.
  For more information on PeerWise please see here
• Grades (Connect)