><br />What's next?</strong></p>
<p>Thanksgiving break! I hope all of you have a safe, relaxing, restorative week off.</p>
<p>When we return from the break, we will talk about Huffman coding -- a data compression algorithm that will be the central topic for our final assignment in the course. Later that week, we will also talk about two incredibly important CS topics: hashing and graphs.</p>
<p>After that, we'll head into the final week of class, which we've designed to be a bit light in hopes that you won'