Welcome to COP3530 - This course is taught at Daytona State College as part of the BSIT program.

This course introduces fundamentals of Data Structures. Topics include: Programming strategies, Data Structures, Searching,  Complexity, Queues, Sorting, and Algorithms.

This is an online textbook developed by Dr. Ron Eaglin for this course. It has everything you need to be successful in this course - go buy a latte - you just saved some money.

Wiki Based Classes - All Students Read

Course Materials

The class management for these courses is wiki based. All course  materials and assignments will be available at this web address. Bulletin Boards, Drop Boxes for all assignments, News items, and the syllabus will be available in Falcon Online.  https://class.daytonastate.edu/ . You should use both this site (your online textbook) and the drop box and bulletin boards available to you at Falcon Online.

Please use the bulletin board for your module to ask questions about a module. Also the assignments will give you instructions on what to complete for your assignments. There will be coding, written assignments, quizzes, and other exercises.

This course is offered at all colleges offering an IT or CS program - here are Links to Schools Offering COP3530 

Many of the students taking this class will go on to be developers. Be good ones - read this blog post on good habits and use them - Link

COP3530 - Course Outcomes

1. Describe both complex and simple data structures.
2. Select the correct data structure and algorithm to solve specific problems.
3. Implement data structures and algorithms in computer code.
4. Analyze the performance of algorithms and data structures.

Other Reference Textbooks

http://www.opendatastructures.org/ 

Very useful e-texts.

https://books.google.com/books?id=siwEAwAAQBAJ

https://books.google.com/books?id=t4wZBQAAQBAJ 

My favorite reference http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-structures/ 

How the Class Works

This class has 15 weekly assignments that you must complete and submit. Each assignment has links to corresponding lectures. The assignments also contain a quiz to be used for self-assessment. If you do not understand a quiz question - you need to ask about it, even thought the answers are available (including explanations) - you need to understand the answers.

All COP3530 Assignments

List of All COP3530 Modules

All Course Lectures

Topics Covered

1.    Introduction to Data Structures
2.    Algorithms and Programming
3.    Basic Data structures

4.    Stacks and Queues

5.    Recursive problems

6.    Search techniques

7.    Sorting Techniques

8.    Hashing Techniques
8.    Indexing techniques
9.    Tree Data Structures

10.  Graph Data Structures

My Online Textbooks (Ron Eaglin)

COP3530 - Data Structures

COP4813 - Web Systems I

COP4708 - Applied Database I (with Dr. Nabeel Yousef)

COP4834 - Web Systems II 

CEN4801 - Systems Integration 

CEN3722 - Human Computer Interaction

Prerequisites

You should have had at least one C based course in programming. Acceptable courses as a pre-requisite are COP2800 (Java), COP2001 (C++), COP2220 (C). Also you should have at least one course in Discrete Analysis or Discrete Mathematics (COT3100, COT3103, MAD2104)

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