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Introduction to Computer Science

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1 .
Simulate patients entering and exiting a hospital emergency room with a priority queue using patients’ time of arrival, basic assessment of severity, and availability of doctors specializing in the appropriate type of care. Decide how to prioritize patients based on a property of each patient, such as their arrival time, numeric severity rating, numeric urgency rating, and availability of care providers. Then, consider how your decision might result in unfair allocation of medical care to patients.
2 .
Choose a lab from the Ethical Reflections Modules for CS1. Follow the instructions to complete the assignment. Once you have finished, answer this additional reflection question connecting back to algorithm design: How did you utilize algorithm design patterns? How did your choice of algorithm designs affect the end outcomes in your program?
3 .
Experimental analysis: Use a software-based “stopwatch” to compare the time (in microseconds) it takes to run a sequential search versus a binary search for successively larger and larger inputs. Relate experimental analysis to asymptotic analysis. What happens to small arrays? What happens to large-size array inputs? What happens when the target is near the front of the array? What happens when the target is near the end of the array?
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