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Data Structures Primer

I've been a tutor for this past semester to students taking Introduction to Programming. Many who have come to my session are moving on to Data Structures next semester. They asked if they could have a primer as to what to expect. I have some resources that I have found helpful both while taking the course and tutoring it in the past. It will take me a little bit to compile a good list of those, but for now, here is a bare-bones list of topics of topics you might expect to see for a data structures course: Part 1: - Running time of code segments (Big-O Notation) - Abstract Data Type (ADT) - Interfaces (when to use "implements", cannot instantiate them, what inheritance is) - Superclass, subclass, method overriding/overloading - Abstract classes Part 2: - Binary Search Trees - Stacks (and its four methods — push, pop, peek, empty) - Linked list (single, double, circular) - Prefix and postfix notation (compare to infix) Part 3: - Min/Max Heap - Hash Table...
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Productivity for a Developer

For my final blog for “Software Design and Architecture” this semester, I decided to research time management for doing software projects. This is an issue that I ran into creating my final project, and I thought it would be worthwhile to learn from my experience while it was fresh in my mind. I thought this would be particularly helpful because I would like to do a few projects for fun over the winter break. I don’t think that I’m alone in that without a looming deadline, what little time management skills I have tend to go out the window. I hope this will change this time. I doubt reading an article will transform me into an extremely productive person, but at least it might point me in the right direction. I can only hope. The article that I found was from *codeproject.com* and was titled “Time Management Tips for Developers.” I thought it gave some good pieces of advice. Even if you are not a software developer, you could benefit from all the advice given. I will focus on three...
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