Software Engineering 101: Data Structures with Python & C++

Welcome to Software Engineering 101: Data Structures with Python & C++ course. This is a comprehensive project based course where you will learn the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms like arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and hash tables, while also exploring algorithms such as sorting, searching, and dynamic programming. This course is a perfect combination between computer science and system optimization, making it an ideal opportunity to practice your programming skills while improving your technical knowledge in software engineering.

In the introduction session, you will learn the basic fundamentals of data structures and algorithms, such as getting to know their use cases, technical limitations, and commonly used algorithms. Then, in the next section you will find and download dataset from kaggle, it is a platform that offers high quality datasets from various industries. Afterward, we will start the project.

Initially we will focus on linear data structure concepts. In the first project, we are going to develop an employee attendance tracker, where arrays will be used to efficiently store and update daily attendance records. In the second project, we are going to design a customer support ticketing system that uses linked lists to manage incoming requests in the order they arrive.

For the third project, we are going to implement an undo feature for a simple text editor by leveraging the Last In First Out behavior of stacks. In the fourth project, we are going to simulate a hospital queue system, using the queue concept to manage patients based on their arrival time. Following that, we will move to non linear data structures concepts.