CISC 1100: Structures of Computer Science



Class times: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:15pm, Lowenstein 508
Instructor: Dr. Daniel D. Leeds (my homepage)
Office (for office hours): Lowenstein 819D
E-mail:
Office hours: MW 12:00 – 1:00pm (actually 11:45am – 12:45pm) and by appointment

Full syllabus is available here.
Course announcements and assignments will be posted over the course of the semester.

Course text: "Fundamentals of Discrete Structures" — the slides here provide another perspective on the class material.

Sections below:

  1. Announcements
  2. Assignments
  3. Handouts
Announcements:
Click here for past announcements.

November 10, 2013 11:55pm Below are exam 2 practice questions! Questions are randomly color-coded. I recommend trying to answer one set of colored questions first (for example, red questions), review the answers to those questions, and then move on to another set of colored questions (for example, green).
In the practice questions, there are several examples of "ill-posed" function compositions. For the actual exam, at most 1-2 compositions will be ill-posed.
Exam 2 is on November 18. You can use "four-function" and scientific calculators, but not graphing calculators. Graphing calculators have a bigger screen and allow you to type any letter of the alphabet.
Scientific calculator Graphing calculator


November 24, 2013 7:35pm (announced in class November 20) Our final exam will be December 18, 1:30-3:30pm, in LL 508. An outline of exam topics is available here.

November 26, 2013 11:05am Exam 2 answers now available here.
Grade breakdown (max possible score 70)
73-above: "A range," 6 students
65-73: "B range," 8 students
57-65: "C range," 3 students
49-57: "D range," 2 students


December 3, 2013 11:20am Below are counting/probability practice questions! Questions are randomly color-coded. I recommend trying to answer one set of colored questions first (for example, red questions), review the answers to those questions, and then move on to another set of colored questions (for example, green).
Update on December 9, 2013 7:50pm: Several corrections made to the answer keys. Corrected questions (but not answers) listed here. Answers given in PDFs below.
Two further corrections added December 11, 1:30pm!

December 9, 2013 12:55am More sets, sequences, logic, and functions practice questions! Questions are randomly color-coded. I recommend trying to answer one set of colored questions first (for example, red questions), review the answers to those questions, and then move on to another set of colored questions (for example, green).
See update above from December 9, 2013 7:50pm

Assignments:
Click here for past assignments.

Posted November 4, 2013:
HW5 answers available here.
Grade breakdown (max possible score 55)
45-above: "A range," 7 students
38-45: "B range," 5 students
31-48: "C range," 3 student
24-31: "D range," 4 students

Lab 2 – web form and Alice animation. DUE 11:59pm November 25. Read all the details of the assignment here.
Grade breakdown (max possible score 47)
41-above: "A range," 8 students
34-41: "B range," 8 students
27-34: "C range," 2 student
20-27: "D range," 2 students


HW6 – covering everything we have learned about probability up to Monday, November 25. This homework is optional!
DUE: At the beginning of class Wednesday, December 4.
Complete the following exercises from the class textbook in Section 7.7.1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 22a,b,d,g, 23
Homework 6 answers now available here.

Handouts
PDF handouts I have provided online, listed here in a central location: