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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

12333 (v.6) Design and Analysis of Algorithms 300

Area: Department of Computing
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 1922 (v.8) Data Structures and Algorithms 120 or any previous version
Syllabus: Algorithms are an essential part of any efficient solutions for computer applications that evolve with the development in computing technologies. Therefore it is imperative for any computing student to have sufficient knowledge of standard algorithm design techniques and analysis. In this unit the students will learn these standard techniques: divide and conquer, greedy, and dynamic programming. The unit shows how the techniques, among others, are used in sorting algorithms, graph algorithms, data compression, 0/1 knapsack, string searching, matrix-chain multiplication, longest common subsequence, and parallel and distributed algorithms. The students will also learn how to use the growth of functions concept to analyse algorithm resource requirement.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 020109 Algorithms
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External