BCA Data Structures and Algorithms

Definition, Abstract Data Type, Importance of Data structure

Introduction, Stack as an ADT, POP and PUSH Operation, Stack Application: Evaluation of Infix, Postfix, and Prefix Expressions, Conversion of Expression

Introduction, Queue as an ADT, Primitive Operations in Queue, Linear and Circular Queue and Their Application, Enqueue and Dequeue, Priority Queue

Introduction, Static and Dynamic List Structure, Array Implementation of Lists, Queues as a List

Introduction, Linked List as an ADT, Dynamic Implementation, Insertion & Deletion of Node To and From a List, Insertion and Deletion After and Before Nodes, Linked Stacks and Queues, Doubly Linked Lists and Its Advantages

Introduction, Principle of Recursion, Recursion vs. Iteration, Recursion Example: TOH and Fibonacci Series, Applications of Recursion, Search Tree

Introduction, Basic Operation in Binary tree, Tree Search and Insertion/Deletion, Binary Tree Traversals (pre-order, post-order and in-order), Tree Height, Level, and Depth, Balanced Trees: AVL Balanced Trees, Balancing Algorithm, The Huffman Algorithm, Game tree, B-Tree

Introduction, Internal and External Sort, Insertion and Selection Sort, Exchange Sort, Bubble and Quick Sort, Merge and Radix Sort, Shell Sort, Binary Sort, Heap Sort as Priority Queue, Efficiency of Sorting, Big 'O' Notation

Introduction to Search Technique, essential of search, Sequential search, Binary search, Tree search, General search tree, Hashing: Hash function and hash tables, Collision resolution technique, Efficiency comparisons of different search technique

Introduction, Graphs as an ADT, Transitive Closure, Warshall's Algorithm, Types of Graph, Graph Traversal and Spanning Forests, Kruskal's and Round-Robin Algorithms, Shortest-path Algorithm, Greedy Algorithm, Dijkstra's Algorithm

Deterministic and Non-deterministic Algorithm, Divide and Conquer Algorithm, Series and Parallel Algorithm, Heuristic and Approximate Algorithms