CSC 270H1Y: Fundamental Data Structures and Techniques

Welcome to the course web site for CSC 270H on the St. George campus. Please use the links below and in the menu bar to the left to find the information you need about this course. (If you do not see a menu on the left, then your browser does not support frames. In that case, click here for the menu.)

Course information sheet

This is the only handout that is provided on paper. If you lose your paper copy, you can print the on-line one.

The course newsgroup and e-mail

The newsgroup is ut.cdf.csc270h, and the instructor's e-mail address is "hsc".

Major announcements will appear on this web site, not in the newsgroup or by e-mail. Effectively, the newsgroup and e-mail are two ways of asking questions. The newsgroup is more public, so if you have a question you think might be of interest to other students, you can post to the newsgroup.

All questions asked by e-mail or in the newsgroup will eventually be answered, but neither will be a central medium for our discussions in the course. Replies to questions may refer you to the course web site; please make sure you have checked for relevant announcements before asking a question.

• Newsgroup postings should be in plain text, without even MIME or HTML formatting. Programming questions asked by e-mail should be in plain text too. After all, that's what your programs look like. (Here is an explanation of how to turn off MIME and HTML formatting.)
• Never post to the course newsgroup your solution to an assignment, or even your idea of how to solve an assignment, or even one small part of a program that is part of your solution to an assignment, etc. If you do this, it may be treated as a case of plagiarism with all the consequences that this entails.
• Read the newsgroup.
• Post a message to the newsgroup.
• Send e-mail to the course instructor.