BBM 201 - Data Structures

BBM 201 - Data Structures (Fall 2025)

Lectures: Wednesday 12:40-15:30
BBM203 Lab: Friday 8:40-12:30

Instructors:

Adnan Özsoy (Section 1) Classroom: D8
Engin Demir (Section 2) Classroom: D9
Hacer Yalım Keleş (Section 3) Classroom: D10

Teaching Assistants:

M. Aslı Taşgetiren
Emirhan Selim,
Hikmet Can Doğancı
Açelya Dalgıç

Student Tutors:

Beyzanur Güzel
Mustafa Şahin

BBM201 Schedule (Tentative)

Week	Topic
1	Orientation and Motivation
2	Basic concepts for data structures, performance analysis, space and time complexity
3	Representation of multidimensional arrays, matrix representation
4	Record/struct, list
5	Linked list
6	National Holiday
7	Stack, Queue
8	Trees, Binary Trees, Binary Search Trees
9	Midterm Exam
10	Balanced Trees: AVL , LLRBT
11	Hash Tables
12	Graph representation
13	String, Trie
14	Priority Queues (Heaps)
	Final Exam

BBM201 Grading

Midterm Exam	45
Final Exam	55

Reference Books

Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++. 4th Edition. Mark Allen Weiss, Pearson, 2014
Fundamentals of Data Structures in C++. Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Susan Anderson-Freed, Computer Science Press, 1995.
Data Structures Using C and C++. 2nd Edition. Yedidyah Langsam, Moshe J. Augenstein, Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Prentice-Hall International Inc., 1996.

BBM203 Schedule (Tentative)

Week	Lab	Assignment
1	Tutorial: Java to C++ Transition
2	Tutorial: Java to C++ Transition
3	Quiz 0 (no grading)
4	Tutorial: Java to C++ Transition
5	Tutorial: Java to C++ Transition	PA1: Linked list
6	Quiz 1
7
8	Quiz 2	PA2: Stack & Queue
9
10	Quiz 3	PA3: Trees
11
12	Quiz 4
13
14	Quiz 5

BBM203 Grading

Programming Assignments	75
Quizes	25

You must get at least 50 points from the programming assignments in order to succeed in BBM203.

Logistics:

All communication and announcements will be posted in the Piazza page http://piazza.com/hacettepe.edu.tr/fall2025/bbm201
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