C241: General Information and Announcements
Spring 2009
Announcements
- May 5, 2009: There is a solution to the second problem from exam 2.
- Apr. 25, 2009: The final exam (which will NOT be comprehensive) has been moved by the registrar. It will be held at the scheduled time (Wednesday, May 6, from 5 to 7 pm), but in Ballantine Hall 228 rather than our usual classroom.
- Apr. 25, 2009: Assignment 9 has been posted.
- Apr. 16, 2009: Assignment 8 has been posted.
- Apr. 2, 2009: The second exam will be Wednesday, April 6. Solutions to assignments 5, 6, and 7 have been posted.
- Mar. 23, 2009: Assignment 7 has been posted.
- Mar. 11, 2009: From Dr. Van Gucht:
Below is the distribution of the midterm grades for C241. This grade is based on your performance on the first 4 assignment and exam 1. Each assignment was weighted equally. I use the following formula.
(1/8)*(Assignment1 + Assignment2 + Assignment3 + Assignment4) + (1/2)*Exam1
Score Grade Number of Students ---------------------------- > 92 A+ 3 > 86 A 5 > 81 A- 2 >76 B+ 6 >70 B 3 >64 B- 7 >59 C+ 5 >56 C 2 >51 C- 3 >44 D 1 <=44 F 4
The average grade out of 100 is 68.
- Mar. 11, 2009: Assignment 6 has been posted.
- Mar. 5, 2009: Assignment 5 has been modified slightly, to make problem 1, part (a) more straightforward.
- Mar. 2, 2009: Assignment 5 has been posted. It is due in a week, Monday, Mar. 9. An old homework on induction with many similar problems, and its solutions, have been posted as well, and you may find it very useful to go over those problems and their solutions.
- Feb. 23, 2009: Solutions for Assignment 3 and the old assignment on sets are posted.
- Feb. 21, 2009: Assignment 4 has been posted. It is due Monday a week, Mar. 2.
- Feb. 18, 2009: An old assignment, covering set material that will appear on exam 1, is posted.
- Feb. 14, 2009: Assignment 3 is now due Wednesday of next week, Feb. 18.
- Feb. 11, 2009: Solutions for Assignment 2 are posted.
- Feb. 9, 2009: Assignment 3 has been posted. It is due Monday of next week, Feb. 16.
- Feb. 9, 2009: Class is canceled today. Make-up lectures will be held during discussion sessions.
- Feb. 5, 2009: Homework 2 contains an error in problem 2, part c. A revised version has been posted. However, in light of time constraints to finish the homework, 2(c) is now optional and may be completed or not, at your discretion. No points will be deducted if 2(c) is missing from your submission.
- Feb. 1, 2009: Solutions for Assignment 1 are posted.
- Jan. 29, 2009: Assignment 2 is now due Friday, Feb. 6.
- Jan. 25, 2009: Assignment 2 has been posted. It is due Monday of next week, Feb. 2.
- Jan. 20, 2009: The Wednesday recitation has been changed to meet in PY 111, rather than PY 113 as originally scheduled.
- Jan. 15, 2009: An error in problem 12 of Assignment 1 has been corrected.
- Jan. 14, 2009: Assignment 1 has been posted. It is due Friday of next week, Jan. 23. You may hand the assignment in in class next Wednesday (Jan. 21) or leave it in Mark's mailbox by 5 pm Jan. 23. The mailbox is #117 in the mail room off the main CS office, Lindley Hall 215.
- Jan. 14, 2009: Important reminder: There are no classes Monday, Jan. 19, which is a university holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- Jan. 12, 2009: Welcome to C241! Announcements about homeworks and class news will be posted here. The navigational links to the left will lead you to a description of class policies, an initial class schedule, your homework assignments, and, if you're interested in typesetting rather than hand-writing your homeworks, a selection of guides to the LaTeX system. Old announcements will be archived on the past announcements page to keep this space uncluttered.
General Information
Course Description
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: C211
Textbook: Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction, 5th Ed., Ralph Grimaldi
Topics: The mathematical foundations of computer science, including combinatorics, propositional and predicate logic, proofs, induction, sets, relations, running time of programs, trees and graphs.
Time and Location
Lecture
Time: Monday and Wednesday, 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Location: HPER Building, Room 019
Recitation 1
Time: Wednesday, 4 pm - 6 pm
Location: Psychology Building, Room 111
Recitation 2
Time: Thursday, 6 pm - 8 pm
Location: Woodburn Hall, Room 112
Instructor
Dirk Van Gucht
Lindley Hall 401B
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 9 am - 10 am
Associate Instructor
Mark Wilson
Lindley Hall 406
Office Hours: Thursday, 4 pm - 6 pm
Undergraduate Instructors
Dylan Bargatze
Lindley Hall 310
Danielle Krug