Prerequisites by Topic

• Significant experience programming in some high-level programming
  language, preferably Java, C, or C++
• Familiarity with standard data structures: lists, stacks, queues,
  trees, search trees, hash tables, graphs
• Understanding of basic concepts of propositional
  and predicate logic and its use in program verification
• Experience in writing mathematical proofs in natural language
• Understanding of algebra (functions, solution of equations,
  limits, summations), calculus (derivatives and integrals),
  combinatorics, and recurrence relations

Knowledge and Skills Acquired

• Mastery of:
  • Analysis of time- and space-complexity of algorithms
  • Various sorting algorithms and their tradeoffs
  • Various advanced data structures and their tradeoffs
  • Proving theorems about algorithms
• Familiarity with:
  • Divide-and-conquer
  • Greedy algorithms
  • Dynamic Programming