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	EECS 280 Programming and Introductory Data Structures ✕	EECS 281 Data Structures and Algorithms ✕
Department	EECS	EECS
Credits	4	4
Level	200 — Lower division	200 — Lower division
Workload	18 hrs/wk	20 hrs/wk
Difficulty	4/5 · Hard	5/5 · Very hard
Median grade	B+ · mean 3.30	B · mean 3.10
% earning A	43%	33%
Expected GPA	3.35	3.21
Student rating	3.9	3.7
Distributions	CS Major Core	CS Major Core
Grade distribution	A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- E	A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- E
Description	Recursion, references and pointers, abstraction, polymorphism, and inheritance. Stacks, queues, linked lists, and trees in C++.	Hash tables, heaps, balanced trees, graphs. Sorting, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, NP-completeness.