Announcements

Please check this page regularly.

• Extra office hour: There will be an office hour on Friday Dec 14, from 11:00am-12:am. This is on top of the one announced below on Monday Dec 17.
  
• Wed Dec 5: Solutions to Assignment 5 have been posted.
  NOTE: There will be an office hour on Dec 17, 10:00am-12:00pm. If you cannot come to this office hour e-mail me earlier and we arrange another office hour.
  
• Mon Dec 3: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 13 have been posted.
  
• Fri Nov 23: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 12 have been posted.
  
• Wed Nov 21: Assignment 5 has been posted.
  
• Fri Nov 16: Lecture and tutorial notes for week 11 have been posted.
  Reading for Test 2 is from the begining of greedy algorithms until the end of Week 10 (that is basic graph algorithms). It will cover materials from Assignments 3 and 4.
  
• Thu Nov 15: Solutions to Assignment 4 have been posted.
  
• Tue Nov 13: Lecture ant tutorial notes for week 10 have been posted.
  
• Fri Nov 2: Lecture and tutorial notes for week 9 have been posted.
  
• Wed Oct 31: Assignment 4 and the solutions to Assignment 3 have been posted.
  
• Tue Oct 30: Term test 1 is now online.
  
• Fri Oct 26: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 8 are posted. I have included an example for matrix-multiplication dynamic programming algorithm on 4 matrices.
  
• Thur Oct 25: There will be an extra office hour by one of the TA's (Babak Behsaz) in Ath328 on Oct 29, 5-6pm to answer any questions you might have about Assignment 3.
  
• Mon Oct 22: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 7 have been posted.
• Wed Oct 17: Assignment 3 has been posted.
  
• Fri Oct 12: Lecture and tutorial notes for week 6 are posted.
  
• Wed Oct 10: Solutions to Assignment 2 have been posted.
  Reading for Term test 1 will be until the end of discussion on sorting.
  
• Tue Oct 9: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 5 are posted.
  
• Fri Sep 28: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 4 have been posted.
  
• Thur Sep 27: While the PS file for the solutions to Assignment 1 was correct, I had placed a wrong PDF copy on the web. Now it is fixed.
• Wed Sep 26: Assignment 2 has been posted. Solutions to Assignment 1 will be posted later this afternoon.
  
• Sun Sep 23: Note that in the last question of Assignment 1, by "expending at most O(log n) tasters..." it means he has only O(log n) tasters available for the test. So your solution should not require more than O(log n) tasters.
• Fri Sep 21: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 3 have been posted.
  
• Fri Sep 14: Lecture and tutorial notes for Week 2 have been posted.
  Note: those of you who haven't been able to buy the book from bookstore: there are more copies in order and they should arrive next week (that's what I've been told).
  In the meantime, the textbook is available online (you can read every single page) through the UofA library.
  
• Fri Sep 7: CLASSROOM CHANGE, starting from Monday Sept 10, lectures for Section A2/EA2 will be held in CAB 269.
  Lecture notes for Week 1 have been posted.
  
• Wed Sep 5: Homework Assignment 1 has been posted.  
•  Thur Aug 16: Announcements will be posted here.