Computer Science 385
Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Spring 2026, Siena University

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Friday's summations practice: reference solutions are posted (only in Canvas)
  • GitHub setup and addition to our class GitHub organization
• Problem Set 1: [PDF] introduction
  • group formation by Friday!
  • please also at least take a quick look before Friday's class and bring questions
• Graph concept and terminology
• Some simple graph implementations

Terminology

• graph
• vertex
• edge
• weighted graph
• adjacent vertices
• path of vertices
• simple path
• cycle
• directed graph/digraph
• undirected graph
• vertex degree, in-degree, out-degree
• adjacency matrix graph representation
• adjacency list graph representation

Examples

• Simple Graph Example Repository
• Structure Package Repository