| Course Title: Data Structures |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: This course builds on the basic programming concepts learned in COMSC-151, shifting the focus to the organization of data in order to improve efficiency and simplicity of programs. Topics include the study of abstract data types and data structures (such as linked lists, stacks, queues, and binary trees). This course is programming-intensive and introduces the Java programming language. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Javier Burroni   |           | jburroni@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Barbara Lerner (email: blerner@mtholyoke.edu, phone: 0) may also be contacted for registration permissions and registration questions. |
| Lisa Ballesteros (email: lballest@mtholyoke.edu, phone: 413-538-2421) may also be contacted for registration permissions and registration questions. |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024   | Lecture   | Monday and Wednesday   | 08:30AM - 09:45AM   | KNDD - Kendade   | 305   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| Prereq: One of the following: COMSC-151 (with a grade of C or better) or COMSC-161 (with a grade of C or better). | Take previously   | Required   |
| Coreq: COMSC-205L. | Take concurrently   | Required   |
| Comments         |
| Additional Comments         |
| Course Tags         | ||
| NXDTA0001   | NXDTA: Nexus in Data Analytics and Society   | This course is approved for the Data Analytics   |
| DATA0001   | DATA-SCI: Data Science Core Course   | This is a required core course of the Data Science major.   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| None   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open     | Capacity: 28     | Enrollment: 20     | Available: 8     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| Title: Data Structures: Abstraction and Design Using Java Author: Koffman, Elliot Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781119703594 Publisher: Wiley |
Required   | 124.95   |
| Title: Introduction to Java Programming and Data Structures Author: , Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780136520238 Publisher: |
Optional   | 119.99   |
| Additional Book Comments         |
| This is the complete book list for this class.   |