Our major topics for the semester:

  Very fast searching: hash tables
  File processing, random access, non-text formats
  Special tree methods, e.g. BFS
  Shortest path and related data structures and algorithms
  Complexity O() and related topics
  Fast sorting (quick-, merge-, and heap-)
  Heaps
  C++'s object oriented details
  Recursion elimination
  Parsing and tree evaluation
  Bit operations
  Interesting Algorithms