Data Structures and Algorithms

Course grades were submitted to the UW Registrar earlier today, meaning we are now done with the quarter! Your grade should be visible on MyUW within the next 24 hours. We calculated grades according to the policies in the syllabus, factoring in everything from the quarter (including grades for EX4 and Exam II) and incorporating post-lecture optional reviews as extra credit to round up when grades were very close.

Grades and feedback for EX4 and Exam II have also now been published, and we’ve posted sample solutions for Exam II on the course website. Exam II had a mean of ~82%, a median of about ~85%, and a standard deviation of about ~13%. Although course grades have already been submitted, it’s extremely important to us that you get the grade you deserve – and if we made a mistake anywhere, it is still possible for us to submit a grade change. Regrade requests for both EX4 and Exam II will be open for 1 week until 9/1, though please note that regrades will only be considered if they have the potential to change your final GPA (so a few points here or there won’t make an impact). If you are currently involved in an ongoing academic misconduct case, your grade will show up as an “X” until that case is resolved.

As you contemplate what comes after 373, we’ve compiled all of our answers to your fantastic questions on Exam II. There are great tips in there about classes to take after 373, additional resources you can use to prepare for technical interviews, and even languages and projects to explore now that the quarter is done! You can also check out the playlist we played before lecture for a little inspiration. Aaron will also have 1:1 meeting availability for the next two weeks if you’d like to chat about next steps!

Congratulations on making it through the quarter! I hope you learned a lot, got a decent amount of sleep, and maybe even had a little fun. It was my honor to be your instructor this summer, and I thoroughly appreciated all of your excellent questions, your hard work toward the assignments, and of course your tolerance of my terrible jokes in lecture. Please stay in touch! I would love to hear how you go on to use the skills you learned in this class, even if you decide you never want to solve another recurrence for the rest of your career. ;)

Now, from all of us on the CSE 373 course staff, take a well-earned break and have a fantastic rest of your summer!

Exam II has been released and will be available for the next 48 hours until 11:59pm PDT on Saturday, August 22 (no late submissions accepted). You can find the exam here, with more detailed instructions:

https://www.gradescope.com/courses/141341/assignments/608174

Notes:

• All clarifications will be posted in a single Piazza post
• In case you find them helpful on the exam, solutions for Exercise 4 have been published and are accessible on Canvas
• Logistics for this exam are just like Exam I: the exam is open-note and open-internet, you can work in groups up to 8, and lecture on Friday 8/21 will be totally optional office hours where you can chill, work on the exam, and ask clarification questions. During the next 48 hours, course staff will only answer clarification questions in OH and won’t help you review course concepts (just like an in-person exam). We’ll still help you with P4, however!
• Remember that the late cutoff for P4 is also Saturday at 11:59pm, so plan ahead if you intend to submit late!

Just like before, please reach out on Piazza or via email to ask us if you’re uncertain what you’re being asked to do – we don’t want anybody to lose points because you don’t understand what a question is asking! Have fun on the exam, and remember to take a minute to celebrate all the learning you’ve done this quarter!

Course evaluations are currently open for CSE 373, and as mentioned in lecture today, they make an enormous impact toward improving the course. We take your feedback very seriously, especially in these unprecedented remote quarters – we spent weeks poring over last quarter’s evals to decide on the course policies for this summer, and I assure you that your feedback will be used the same way next quarter. All insights are helpful, but these become far more useful when we can get a 90-100% response rate. So far, you all have done an amazing job giving us feedback throughout the quarter – please help us out by keeping up the streak and finishing strong!

Evals close on Friday, 8/21 at 11:59pm, but I encourage you to fill them out right now if you can! If this takes you longer than 10 minutes, feel free to stop where you are and submit so you can get back to P4 :)

Lecture: https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228731

Sections:

• AA (12:00, Leona & Keanu): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228950
• AB (1:10, Keanu & Siddharth): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228937
• AC (1:10, Farrell & Melissa): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228940
• AD (2:20, Joyce): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228943
• AE (10:50, Leona & Eric): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228941
• AF (12:00, Farrell): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228944
• AG (1:10, Eric): https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/228948

Thanks so much everyone!