Lecture_1

Topics Discussed

 

Data Structures we will learn about

Stack – FIFO

Queue – LIFO

Linked Lists

Trees

                    Different kinds

                    Methods of traversing

Graphs

Hash tables

                    Chaining

                    Linear probing

         Big Oh notation – evaluation of efficiency of algorithms

          Algorithm definition         

 

What we will do with the Data Structures

Retrieve data

          Search for data we want to retrieve

Sort data to make searching easier

 

Language we will program in

          Ada

 

We discussed

  • Ada history
  • Ada references