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DSA Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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DSA Exam 1Base case - answer which can be solved without recursion
Making progress - answer each recursive call makes progress towards the base case
Design rule - answer assume recursive calls work without tracing it all out
Compound interest rule - answer don’t duplicate work already performed in a previous
call
Generic Objects - answer we want to write a class that can store some data, but we
may wish to use it with different types
autoboxing - answer automatically inserts a wrapper
If a method has a parameter which accepts collections of type Person, could you pass it
a collection of type Student? - answer No, because collections are not covariant.
type erasure - answer Generic classes are seen by the compiler but are converted to
regular classes (called raw classes) during compilation.
Comparator - answer allows the comparison rule to be separate from the object
algorithm - answer a set of steps to solve a problem
O Big O - answer Upper bound (possibly equal).
Θ Theta - answer Growth rates are equal.
Ω Omega - answer Lower bound (possibly equal).
o Little o - answer Upper bound (not equal).
log N - answer Logarithmic
log^2 N - answer Log-squared
N - answer Linear
N^2 - answer Quadratic
, N^3 - answerCubic
2^N - answerExponential
For-loops - answerNumber iterations (n) times the statements inside
Nested for-loops - answerStatements inside times the product of loop sizes
Consecutive statements add - answerthe maximum one is the one that counts
If-else statements - answertest plus the larger of the two branches
"Divide and Conquer" strategy runtime - answerO(NLogN)
If an algorithm (repeatedly) takes constant time to reduce the problem size by a fraction,
its runtime is... ? - answerO(logN)
If an algorithm (repeatedly) takes constant time to reduce the problem size by a
constant, its runtime is... ? - answerO(N)
Binary Search runtime - answerO(log N)
Euclid's Algorithm - answerFinds greatest common divisor (gcd) of two values.
O(log N)
abstract data type - answerset of objects with a set of operations
collection - answerstores objects of the same type
insert - answerenqueue
delete - answerdequeue
circular queue - answerIf the back index reaches the end of the array, it may wrap to the
beginning.
tree - answera collection of nodes
top node - answerroot node
root is connected to - answerzero or more subtrees
root of each subtree - answeris a child of its parent
Length of path - answernumber of edges on the path
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