CS240E Winter 2024 Home/Tools directory

This is the website for CS 240E Winter 2024. If you are looking for CS 240R (Regular) Winter 2024, follow this link.

Course Description

The course introduces widely used and effective methods of data organization, focusing on data structures, their algorithms, and the performance of these algorithms. Specific topics include priority queues, sorting, dictionaries, and data structures for text processing.

Students will learn to:

More details on the goals and coverage of the course can be found in the official course description.

Tools directory

The course uses a number of different tools for distributing information and receiving submissions. (Unfortunately, no one tool seems suitable for doing all tasks.) The table below should help you keep track of which tool to use when:

What When Where Comments
Announcements Daily Piazza Announcements of all kinds, also polls, corrections, ...
Modules Before lecture Lecture-tab on this web page These are the slides that are used in the lecture. Typically a module covers 2-3 classes, but this varies. We aim to post the next module at least a few days before it is needed.
Assignment Questions When announced on piazza Assignments-tab on this web page Read this as soon as it is available so you know which parts of class you need to pay special attention to.
Assignment (Written) Submission A few days before the due date MarkUs.
You will need to log in with your userid.
Submit a PDF. Submit early; you can override what you submitted later with an improved version.
Assignment (Programming) Submission A few days before the due date MarmoSet.
You will need to log in with your userid.
Submit a text-file with extension .cpp. Submit early; you can override what you submitted later with an improved version.
Exam Information When announced on piazza Exams-tab on this web page
Exam Seat A few days before the exam Odyssey

The following are optional.

What When Where Comments
Course notes After lecture Protected-file area on this web page.
You will need to log in with your userid.
The course notes cover all material of the modules, but in much greater detail, and they often give further results (as well as material for the enriched section). You are not required to know material beyond what was covered in class, but the course notes will give you a different perspective and so are recommended reading. Chapter X roughly corresponds to Module X.
Scans/videos After lecture Content-tab on LEARN.
You will need to log in with your userid.
There may be notes and/or screen-cases from the lecture available, but this depends on the instructor.
Quizzes After each module Submit-tab on LEARN.
You will need to log in with your userid.
These are not worth credit, but may help you in self-testing your understanding of the material.
Tutorial Questions A few days before tutorial Tutorials-tab on this web page You should attempt the tutorial-questions on your own, and if you find these difficult, be sure to attend tutorial.
Tutorial Solutions A few days after tutorial Protected-file area on this web page.
You will need to log in with your userid.
These may well be incomplete.
Assignment (Written) Solutions A few days after the due date Protected-file area on this web page.
You will need to log in with your userid.
Assignment Remark Requests Within a week from piazza-post that marks are released email to cs240e@uwaterloo.ca See info page for more details
Midterm grades/comments When notified by email. Crowdmark. Crowdmark will send an email to (max-8-char userid)@uwaterloo.ca with a link.
Paperwork, VIF, SDA, AAS As soon as possible after the event email to kaanders@uwaterloo.ca See info page for more details
The following will typically not be made available: