Catalog Description: Fundamental dynamic data structures, including linear lists, queues, trees, and other linked structures; arrays strings, and hash tables. Storage management. Elementary principles of software engineering. Abstract data types. Algorithms for sorting and searching. Introduction to the Java programming language.

Units: 4

Prerequisites: COMPSCI 61A, COMPSCI 88, or ENGIN 7.

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for COMPSCI 61B after completing COMPSCI 61BL, or COMPSCI 47B. A deficient grade in COMPSCI 61B may be removed by taking COMPSCI 61BL.

Formats:
Fall: 3.0 hours of lecture, 1.0 hours of discussion, and 2.0 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 6.0 hours of lecture, 2.0 hours of discussion, and 4.0 hours of laboratory per week
Spring: 3.0 hours of lecture, 1.0 hours of discussion, and 2.0 hours of laboratory per week

Grading basis: letter

Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period


Class Schedule (Spring 2024):
CS 61B – MoWeFr 13:00-13:59, Dwinelle 155 – Justin Yokota, Peyrin Kao

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Department Notes:

In CS 61B, students are expected to gain facility with Java programming, become familiar with fundamental data structures and algorithms, and learn techniques for constructing programs of moderate size using Java.

Roughly a third of the semester will be devoted to an introduction to Java. Constructs and topics to be covered include the following:

In the rest of the semester, and in conjunction with practice of basic Java programming techniques, students will implement and experiment with fundamental algorithms and data structures:

The aim is for students to be able to recognize when these data structures and algorithms are applicable to a problem, and to be able to evaluate their relative advantages and disadvantages.

Design in terms of abstract data types and isolation of their implementation in modules will be emphasized. We intend that, having taken CS 61B, student will:

Data types used for illustration will include queues, stacks, dictionaries, sets, and GUI toolsets.

CS 61B is the first place in our curriculum that students design and develop a program of significant size (1500-2000 lines) from scratch. Course assignments typically involve two such programs.

CS 61A is an important prerequisite for 61B. We expect to build heavily on data-oriented and object-oriented design approaches introduced in those courses, as well as on algorithms for recursive list and tree manipulation.

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