DSAN 5500: Data Structures, Objects, and Algorithms in Python

Thursdays, 6:30-9pm, Car Barn 202

Author

Affiliation

Jeff Jacobs
jj1088@georgetown.edu

Georgetown University
Spring 2026

Welcome to the homepage for DSAN 5500: Data Structures, Objects, and Algorithms in Python, Spring 2026, at Georgetown University! The course takes place on Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:00pm in Car Barn 202. More details are provided on the syllabus.

Title	Date
Week 1: Course Intro and Motivation	January 8
Week 2: Software Design Patterns and Object-Oriented Programming	January 15
Week 3: Data Structures and Computational Complexity	January 22
Week 4: Data Structures from Scratch with OOP	January 29
Week 5: Linked Lists and Binary Search Trees	February 5
Week 6: Hash Tables and BST Iteration	February 12
Week 7: Code Examples and Midterm Review	February 19
Week 8: In-Class Midterm	February 26
Week 9: BST Iteration, Functional Programming, and the RSA Algorithm	March 12
Week 10: Cryptographic Hash Functions: RSA and Diffie-Hellman	March 19
Week 11: From Object-Oriented to Functional Programming	March 26
Week 12: Final Projects, Functional Programming, Map-Reduce	April 9
Week 13: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Prefect for ETL Pipelines	April 16
Week 14: Applications in Bioinformatics	April 23