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CT 205 Data Structures is offered to S.Y. B.Tech. Computer Engineering and I.T. students. It is a 4 credit course. The laboratory course CT 209 Data Structures Laboratory is a 2 credit course.

= Common Mistakes by Students in Assignments Submission =
== Writing the NUL character ==
The NUL character is written as '\0' and not as '/0'
== Copying pointers ==
When you say p = q, where p and q are both pointers, then p does not point to q, but p points to where q points.
E.g. 
int a, *p, *q; 
q = &a; 
p = q; 
means p points to a
== Forgetting use of & in scanf ==
scanf expects the caller to pass the address of a variable in which scanf will store data. Students often forget to do it for non-array variables (for arrays, the name itself is the address)
For example: 
int i; 
scanf("%d", i) 
instead of 
scanf("%d", &i); 
== Using O and Omega Notation in wrong place ==
The right way of using O and Omega notation is f(n) = O(g(n)) 
Students often write it as O(f(n)) = g(n) 
Another common mistake is writing 
O is n or O = n 
The correct way of saying it is f(n) = O(n)

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