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TEXTBOOKS ASSIGNED CHAPTERS
[Algorithms] = Buy at Amazon Horowitz, Ellis, Sartaj Sahni, and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. Computer Algorithms / C++. Summit, NJ: Silicon Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780929306421. 1-6, 8 (most sections)
Buy at Amazon Cormen, Thomas, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262032933. None. Use to supplement Horowitz as needed.
Buy at Amazon Horstmann, Cay. Big Java. 4th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2009. ISBN: 9780470509487. None. Use as a Java reference.
[SQL] = Buy at Amazon Syverson, Bryan, and Joel Murach. Murach’s SQL Server 2005 for Developers. Fresno, CA: Murach & Associates, 2006. 1-7
[JDBC] = Buy at Amazon Fisher, Maydene, Jon Ellis, and Jonathan Bruce. JDBC API Tutorial and Reference. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 9780321173843. 1-2
[Newell] = Buy at Amazon Newell, C. Application of Queuing Theory. New York, NY: Springer, 1982. ISBN: 9780412245008. 1-2
[Press] = Buy at Amazon Press, William, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling, and Brian Flannery. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521880688. 2
[Sheffi] = Buy at Amazon Sheffi, Yosef. Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1985. ISBN: 9780139397295. 4, 5.1-5.2
[Kocur] = Kocur, George, and Chris Hendrickson. "Design of Local Bus Service with Demand Equilibration." Transportation Science 16, no. 2 (1982): 149-170. All

Readings by Session

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
Databases
1 Database: Entity-relationship modeling SQL 9
2 Database: Normalization, SQL basics SQL 1-3, 7
3 Database: SQL joins, views, subqueries SQL 4-6
4 Database: JDBC JDBC 1-2
Data Structures
5 Algorithms: Analysis, complexity Algorithms 1
6 Stacks, queues, trees, dictionaries Algorithms 2.1-2.3
7 Graphs Algorithms 2.6
8 Heaps, sets Algorithms 2.4-2.5
Divide-and-conquer and Greedy Algorithms
9 Divide-conquer: Binary search, quicksort, selection Algorithms 3.1-3.3, 3.5-3.6
10 Greedy: Knapsack, job sequence Algorithms 4.1-4.2, 4.4
11 Greedy: Minimum spanning trees Algorithms 4.5
12 Greedy/dynamic programming: Shortest paths Algorithms 4.8
  Quiz 1  
Dynamic Programming
13 Priniciple of optimality, resource allocation Algorithms 5.1-5.2
14 Job scheduling, graph/tree generation  
15 Knapsack problem, set representation Algorithms 5.7
Branch-and-bound
16 Branch and bound: Backtrack method, knapsack problem Algorithms 7.1, 7.6
17 Branch and bound: General method, facility location Algorithms 8.1-8.2
Linear and Nonlinear Optimization
18 Continuous constrained nonlinear optimization Sheffi 3-3.2, 4.1, 4.3
19 Network equilibrium Sheffi 5.1-5.2
20 Linear systems Press 2
21 Continuous unconstrained nonlinear optimization Press 10
22 Unconstrained methods: Amoeba, BFGS, demand model estimation  
Approximate Queues and Network Designs
23 Analytic approximations: Network design Kocur
24 Approximate queuing analysis Newell 1, 2