CSCI 162 — Winter 2025

This course emphasizes the use of abstraction in programming. Elementary data structures are introduced (stacks, queues, lists, trees) along with related algorithms. The data structures and other simple iterative and recursive algorithms are used (e.g. searching and sorting) are used to introduce algorithm analysis.

Professor

  • Dr. James Hughes

  • jhughes at stfx.ca

  • Annex 20B

  • YouTube

GitHub Repo

  • The course content is available on GitHub

  • Feel free to submit issues, fork the repo, and submit pull requests

    • Follow the guidelines

  • In other words, feel free to make contributions to the course content

    • In fact, I encourage this

Class Times

  • Tue 11:30 – 12:20 (K4), MULH 4024

  • Wed 13:30 – 14:20 (K5), MULH 4024

  • Fri 12:30 – 13:20 (K6), MULH 4024

Labs

  • Lab Sec 11: Thr 14:30 – 16:20 (L8-A9), MULH 4024

  • Lab Sec 12: Fri 14:30 – 16:20 (C9-K9), MULH 4024

Office Hours

Office Hours Etiquette — Don’t Do This.

  • Tue 12:30 – 13:20, Annex 20B

  • Wed 12:30 – 13:20, Annex 20B

  • Thu 13:30 – 14:20, Annex 20B

  • Fri 13:30 – 14:20, Annex 20B

Getting Started