CS240 Schedule

James Madison University, Fall 2025

The schedule below represents my current best estimate concerning due dates (and everything else). I am providing this information to give you a general idea of the pace and timing of the class. This schedule will certainly change as the semester progresses.

WEEK	Date			CLASS	OUT	IN
1	08-20	1	Collection Review	Course Introduction
	08-22		Collection Review	Collection Review
2	08-25	2	Iterators + Counting	Iterator Coding Lab DONE	Iterator HW - Multiset
	08-27			Intro to Counting
	08-29			Mastery Practice 1: Collections + Iterators + Counting
3	09-01	3	Asymptotic Analysis	Counting "Lab"	Counting HW?
	09-03			Big O etc.
	09-05			Mastery 1
4	09-08	4	Array Lists	More big O	ArrayList HW
	09-10			ArrayList Intro
	09-12			Mastery Practice 2: Big O
5	09-15	5	Linked Lists, Stacks, Queues	Linked List Stack Queue	Linked List HW
	09-17			Linked List Lab
	09-19			Mastery 2: Big O
6	09-22	6	Recursion	Wrap up lists etc.	Harder LL HW (Hybrid Deque?)
	09-24			Start Recursion
	09-26			Mastery Practice 3: Lists, Stacks Queues
7	09-29	7	Solving Recurrences	Solving Recurrences	Recursion Coding + Analysis
	10-01			Solving Recurrences
	10-03			Mastery 3
8	10-06	8	Sorting	Simple sorts Intro	Sorting HW (simple)
	10-08			Merge Sort
	10-10			Mastery Practice 4: Recursion
9	10-13	9	Sorting	Quicksort	Sorting HW (merge/quick)
	10-15			Sorting Lab
	10-17			Mastery 4
10	10-20	10		Mastery 5 Practice: Sorting
	10-22			FALL BREAK
	10-24			FALL BREAK
11	10-27	11	Trees	Intro to Trees	Tree HW - recursive tree exercises
	10-29			Tree lab
	10-31			Mastery 5: Sorting
12	11-03	12	Trees	Binary Search Trees	BST HW
	11-05			BST Lab
	11-07			Mastery Practice 5: Trees
13	11-10	13	Hashing	PriorityQueue/Heap	Heap HW
	11-12			Hashing
	11-14			Mastery 5
14	11-17	14	Graphs	Hashing	Hashing HW
	11-19			Hashing
	11-21			Mastery Practice 6: Hashing
15	11-24			THANKSGIVING
	11-26			THANKSGIVING
	11-28			THANKSGIVING
16	12-01	15	Review	Graph
	12-03			Application Lab
	12-05			Review