This page contains the programming assignments for this course. The assignment specification describes the technical requirements of the programming assignment; the checklist answers FAQs and provides advice for testing and getting started. The assignment FAQ also contains important information common to all programming assignments.
Due dates. Assignments are due at 11:59pm ET on Monday evenings.
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| 1 | Monday 2/3 |
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Percolation Estimate the percolation threshold using union–find. |
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| 2 | Monday 2/10 |
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Queues Implement two collections using arrays and linked lists. |
individual |
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| 3 | Monday 2/24 |
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Autocomplete Find all terms beginning with a given prefix, sorted by weight. |
partner |
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| 4 | Monday 3/24 |
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K-d Trees Implement k-d trees with nearest neighbor search. |
partner |
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| 5 | Monday 3/31 |
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WordNet Measure the relatedness of two nouns using the WordNet digraph. |
partner |
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| 6 | Monday 4/14 |
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Seam Carving Implement a content-aware image resizing algorithm. |
partner |
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| 7 | Monday 4/21 |
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Fraud Detection Predict credit card fraud using algorithms for machine learning. |
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