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Precepts

Below are links to the precept handouts. This material is not a replacement for going to precept: some material in precept will not appear in these handouts and not all of the material in these handouts will be covered during precept.
# DATE TOPICS HANDOUT
The precepts below have not yet been updated for Fall 2025.
1 Friday
9/5
Union-Find
Analysis of Algorithms
Precept 1
2 Friday
9/12
Stacks and Queues Precept 2
3 Friday
9/19
Elementary Sorts
Mergesort
Precept 3
4 Friday
9/26
Quicksort
Priority Queues
Precept 4
5 Friday
10/3
Elementary Symbol Tables
Balanced Search Trees
Precept 5
6 Friday
10/10
no precept
7 Friday
10/24
Hash Tables
Kd-Trees
Precept 6
8 Friday
10/31
Graphs and Digraphs Precept 7
9 Friday
11/7
Minimum Spanning Trees
Shortest Paths
Precept 8
10 Friday
11/14
Dynamic Programming
Maxflow
Precept 9
11 Friday
11/21
Randomness
Multiplicative Weights
Precept 10
12 Friday
12/5
Intractability
Algorithm Design
Precept 11

Changing precepts. If you would like to attend a different precept on a continuing basis, you must officially register for that precept through TigerHub. If the precept is closed, monitor enrollments and change precepts when a student drops. If you have a scheduling problem that can’t be solved unless you move into a closed precept, contact Kobi Kaplan and explain your situation.