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Computing 2 - COMP2091
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Contact: 
Buckland,Richard James
Ho,Peter Steven
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 5.5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP1091.
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 

Description

An exclusion exists between COMP1921, COMP2011 and COMP2091. Students are not permitted to take more than one of these courses.

Abstract data types and data structures: sequential (lists, stacks, queues), dictionaries (binary trees, hashing), priority queues (heaps), graphs and networks. Implementation of associated algorithms in C. Informal analysis of efficiency. File structures: binary formats, direct access techniques, XML. Data compression, Huffman coding. Numeric represenation and limitations. Conditional compilation, storage classes, memory management, function parameters, using profilers and debuggers. Interfacing to libraries. Introduction to multi-threading.

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