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FIT9059

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 19 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to problem solving concepts and techniques fundamental to the science of programming. It covers data types; data structures; algorithms; algorithmic complexity; and recursion. Detailed topics include analysis of best and worst-case time complexity; data structures such as lists, stacks, queues, binary search trees, graphs and heaps; hashing; sorting algorithms; searching algorithms; and graph algorithms. Students will implement these algorithms and data structures in the Python programming language.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. design and implement simple algorithms in Python;
  2. implement basic data types such as stacks, queues, lists, trees, priority queues, heaps and hash tables;
  3. compare and evaluate different algorithms and implementations of basic data types;
  4. calculate best case and worst case big-O algorithm complexity.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hour lectures
  • Two hour laboratory

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours of personal study per week in order to satisfy the reading, lab and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Bernd Meyer

Prerequisites

FIT9131 or any equivalent introductory programming unit

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/