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1 & 8/25 -- 8/29 & Review of C; program development concepts and pitfalls\\
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Review of C (contd.); The compilation process; software life cycle models; ADTs, classes\\
3 & 9/8 -- 9/12 & Class members and object instantiation; Functions: outside and within classes, default parameters, function overloading; Constructors: with and without default parameters\\
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Member access rules; static \& dynamic function binding; abstract and concrete classes; Pointer \& dynamic variables: concepts \& syntax\\
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9 & 10/20 -- 10/24 & Asymptotic time complexity of algorithms: Big-O, Big-$\Omega$ and Big-$\Theta$, \& solved examples\\
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16 & 12/8 -- 12/12 & \textcolor{red}{Quiz 5 - Mon, 12/8}; P, NP and Undecidable problem classes; topics review on final class day (Wed, 12/10); \textbf{Tue, 12/9: Deemed Fri class day}\\
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