Dear Students,
Exam 1 will be held on Tuesday, October 15th, 2024:
Time: 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM (regular class time) Location: Towne 217, the Forman Active Learning Classroom (regular classroom) The format of the exam will be a pen-and-paper exam, with an optional cheatsheet (see below for details). There will be a PrairieLearn component released after the exam, which is optional and worth 25% of the overall grade, to be completed on your own time by Sunday, October 20th, 2024.
The Canvas website has finally been launched! 🚀
This should make it easier for you to access Ed Discussion and Gradescope, which are both accessible from links at the top of this page.
In the Sep 3 lecture, we also discussed the two helper documents:
Common Mistakes Primer for simple math simplification mistakes. Algebraic Simplification Rules to refamiliarize yourself with algebraic rules useful in the course.
The recording of Lecture 1 of Sep. 3 has been posted on Panopto.
You can expect every future lecture to be recorded and be made available within a few hours.
These recordings are automatically made, courtesy of CETS, Penn Engineering’s technology support team. The campus-wide license of Panopto allows us to record and share lectures with you, and is courtesy of Rob Nelson, the Director of Academic Technology Services at Penn Engineering.
The topic of discrete math is covered in many textbooks, and so there are a lot of different options to choose from.
When looking for textbooks or resources for this course, it is important to consider the following:
Topic Match: The topics covered in this course (in order) are: Sets, relations, counting (also called combinatorics), discrete probability, logic, discrete proofs, and an introduction to simple graphs. The textbook should cover these topics in a way that is accessible to a computer science student.
