====== Week 12 ======

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==== Tuesday ====

    * the meeting id for tues/thurs lectures
     *  https://vassar.zoom.us/j/5845469406
   
   * We will finish talking about HashSets
     * Then revisit stacks and queues
     * Oh, there is a stacks and queues lab for Wednesday, similar to last week's lab.
   * ok, a word about the HashSet: no exceptions in the specs!
   * {{:courses:cs102-202051:hashsetsaddmethod.png?nolink|Last week we ended with HashSets add method}}
   * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:whatishash.java |Let's talk about what a hash is}}
   * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:fifo.java |The queue, revisited}}
   * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:lifo.java |The stack, revisited}}
   * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:102-lec18a.pptx |Lecture notes}}
   * [[https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/04/20/brush-up-your-cobol-why-is-a-60-year-old-language-suddenly-in-demand/|How to make a buck or two]]
   * [[https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html#using-gnucobol|What you could be doing during the summer]]
   * [[https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/?utm_source=pocket-newtab|Article on Donald Knuth, his texts were the books I used in college (yes, the printing press existed when I was in college.)]]
   * Today's lecture recording on moodle!
     * https://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=15822#section-14







==== Wednesday ====

  *The zoom meeting link for labs 
    * https://vassar.zoom.us/j/880032011
  * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:remotelab4.txt |The Remote Lab Instructions}}
  * Here is an updated zip file of the lab files; includes implementations for queue & stack 
    * you still need your MyLinkedList and I didn't update the lab instructions :-\
    * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:remotelab4starterkit.zip |Updated zip file, including my queue/stack implementations}}


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==== Thursday ====

    * the meeting id for tues/thurs lectures
     *  https://vassar.zoom.us/j/5845469406
   * A solution to the Palindrome Problem (certainly not the only one!)
     * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:palindrome.java |}}
   * Presented for your consideration: some files that utilize the priority queue data structure
     * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:pq.java |a few examples using the priority queue}}
     * that last example uses something we call a reverse comparator.
     * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:revcmp.java |}}
   * I enqueued maps onto the this week's lecture notes :)
   * {{ :courses:cs102-202051:102-lec18b.pptx |pq+maps}}
   * Thursday's record lecture...
     * https://moodle.vassar.edu/mod/folder/view.php?id=620539&forceview=1
     

 
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