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Week Topic Reading Problem Sets Exams
Sep/09–Sep/11 Circuits and Gates Chapter 2    
  MW: Lecture Notes (09/09) Play with Circuits    
  MT: Lecture Notes (09/10)      
  TF: Lecture Slides (9/11 - start)      
  TF: Lecture Slides (9/11 - end)      
  Handout - Circuits      
Sep/12     PS1 out; due 18th  
Sep/14–Sep/18 Logic, Propositions, Chapter 3    
  Truth Tables, Equivalence      
  MW: Lecture Notes (09/14 @ 1450)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (09/14 @ 1145)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (9/15)      
         
  Recitation 01, Solutions      
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (09/16)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (09/17)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (9/18)      
  TF: Handout - Propositional Logic      
Sep/18; Friday -------------–—> ---------–—> PS1 due; 11:59pm  
Sep/19 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS2 out; due 25th  
Sep/21–Sep/25 Predicates and Quantifiers      
  Number Representations; [Chapter 1]    
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (9/21)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (9/21)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (9/22)      
         
  Recitation 02, Solutions   PS1 solutions  
         
  Logic: Implications, Predicates, Quantifiers      
  MW: Lecture Notes (9/23)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (9/24)      
  TF: Handout - Number Representation      
  TF: Lecture Slides (9/25)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (9/25)      
Sep/25; Friday -------------–—> ---------–—> PS2 due; 11:59pm Practice Exam 1
        Solutions
Sep/28–Sep/29 2's complement [Chapter 1]    
  Review for Exam 1 [Chapter 1, 2, 3]    
         
  Practice Exam, Solutions   PS2 solutions  
         
  MW: Two's Complement (9/28)      
  Practice Exam Review (9/28)      
  MT: Two's Complement (9/28)      
  Practice Exam Review (9/28)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (9/29)      
  TF: Handout - Two's Complement      
Sep 30; Oct 01/02 Exam 1: Circuits, Logic, Numbers     1st Exam
Oct/04 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS3 out; due 9th  
Oct/05–Oct/09 Set Operations, Equality, [Chapter 7]    
  Cardinality, Functions      
        Exam Solutions
        A, B, C, D
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/05)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/05) Project Details    
  TF: Slides (10/5)      
  TF: Handout - Sets      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/6)      
         
  Recitation 03, Solutions      
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/07)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/08)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/9)      
Oct/10; Saturday -------------–—> ---------–—> PS4 out; due 16th  
Oct/11; Sunday -------------–—> ---------–—> PS3 due; 11:59pm  
Oct/12; Mon –— No class ----- ----- ----- -----
Oct/13; Tue –— No class ----- ----- ----- -----
Oct/14–Oct/16 Combinatorics (Counting) [Chapter 8]    
  Sum & Product rules      
  Permutations, Combinations      
         
  Recitation 04, Solutions   PS3 Solutions  
         
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/14)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/15)      
  TF: Handout: Counting      
  TF: Slides (10/16 - start)      
  TF: Slides (10/16 - end)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/16)      
Oct/16 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS4 due; 11:59pm  
Oct/17 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS5 out; due 23rd  
Oct/19–Oct/23 Keep Counting! [Chapter 8]    
  Overcounting, Indistinguishable      
  Pigeonhole      
         
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/19)      
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/19)      
  TF: Handout - Counting w/Repetition      
  TF: Slides (10/20 - start)   PS4 Solutions  
  TF: Slides (10/20 - end)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/20)      
         
  Recitation 05, Solutions      
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/21)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/22)      
  TF: Handout: Pigeonhole Principle      
  TF: Slides (10/23)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/23)      
Oct/23; Friday -------------–—> Project logistics PS5 due; 11:59pm  
Oct/25 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS6 out; due 31th  
Oct/26–Oct/30 Intro to (Discrete) Probability [Chapter 9]    
  - Sample, Event spaces      
  - PDF/CDF (equal, \(\geq\) prob)      
  - Uniform distribution      
  - Joint probability, (In)Dependence      
      PS5 Solutions  
         
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/26)      
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/26)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/27)      
  TF: Handout - Probability      
         
  Recitation 06, Solutions      
         
  MW: Lecture Notes (10/28)      
  MT: Lecture Notes (10/29)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (10/30)      
        Practice Exam 2
        Solutions
         
Oct/31 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS6 due; 11:59pm  
Nov/01     Project Group &  
      Proposal  
Nov/02–Nov/03 Probability Continued [Chapter 9]    
  - Conditional Probability      
  - Bayes Rule      
  - Expectation      
      PS6 Solutions  
         
  MT: Lecture Notes (11/02)      
  MW: Lecture Notes (11/02)      
  TF: Lecture Notes (11/3)      
  TF: Practice Solns (Counting)      
         
Nov 04/05/06 Exam 2: Sets, Combinatorics, Probability     2nd Exam
Nov/07 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS7 out; due 13th  
Nov/09–Nov/10 Intro to Sequences and Sums [Chapter 11]    
         
  MT: Lectures Notes (11/09)      
  MW: Lectures Notes (11/09)      
  TF: Handout - Sequences and Summations      
  TF: Lecture Notes (11/10)      
         
Nov/11; Wed –— No class ----- ----- ----- -----
Nov/12–Nov/13 Arithmetic and Geometric Series [Chapter 11]    
  Mathematical Induction [Chapter 12]    
         
  Recitation 07, Solutions     Exam Solutions
        A, B, C, D
  MW: No class, read MT's notes.      
  MT: Lecture Notes (11/12)      
  TF: Handout - Induction      
  TF: Lecture Notes (11/13)      
Nov/13; Friday -------------–—> ---------–—> PS7 due; 11:59pm  
Nov/14 -------------–—> ---------–—> PS8 out; due 20th  
Nov/16–Nov/20 Induction Continued [Chapter 12]    
Nov/16–Nov/20 -------------–—> ---------–—> Project Meeting  
Nov/20; Friday -------------–—> ---------–—> gPS8 due; 11:59pm  
Nov/23–Nov/24 Intro to Graphs [Chapter 16]    
Nov 25/26/27 (Wed–Fri) –— Thanksgiving break ----- ----- ----- -----
Nov/30–Dec/01 More Induction [Chapter 12]    
Dec 2/3/4 Exam: Probability, Sequences,     3rd Exam
  Induction, Graphs      
Dec/07–Dec/11 Project presentations      
  in lectures & recitations      
Dec/14–Dec/20 Finals week     Final
         
Dec 16 Akshar's Sections:      
8-10 AM Sec-2 (CRN: 10264), Sec-3 (CRN: 11124)      
  Science Engineering Complex 102      
         
Dec 16 Laney's Section:      
8-10 AM Sec-10 (CRN: 13884)      
  Snell Engineering Center 108      

Author: Laney Strange

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