| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 3 | Introduction and Preliminaries Chapter 1 - |
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| January 8 | Mathematical tools for Algorithm Analysis Chapter 3 Appendix A |
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| January 15 | Design and Analysis Fundamentals Chapter 2 |
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| January 22 | Graphs, trees and other Data Structures Chapter 4 Appendix B |
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| January 29 | Sorting Chapter 5 |
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| February 5 | Divide and Conquer Chapter 8 . |
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| February 12 | The Greedy method Chapter 7. |
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| February 19 | Mid-semester break. No classes. | |
| February 26 | Dynamic Programming Chapter 9 |
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| March 5 | Backtracking and Branch and Bound Chapter 10 |
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| March 12 | Applications of Major Design Strategies |
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| March 19 | String Matching and Document Processing Chapter 20 |
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| March 26 | NP-Complete Problems Chapter 26 |
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| April 2 | Review |