CIS2166 - Mathematical Concepts in Computing II

Fall 2013

Section 002

Schedule and Homework Assignments

Instructor

• Longin Jan Latecki , email: latecki@temple.edu
• Office: 306 Wachman Hall, phone: 215-204-5781
• Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 and Friday 13:00 - 14:00 or by appointment; on skype, user name latecki_tu

TA

• David Dobor, email: david.dobor@gmail.com
• Office: Carnell 1003
• Office Hours: Monday 11:00 - 13:00

Class

• Meets: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-13:50  TL 403B

Recitation

• Meets: Monday 14:00-15:50  TL 401B
• Recitations are lead by the Teaching Assistant. Attendance for the full period of each recitation is MANDATORY.

Text

• Required:
  Kenneth Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, 7th edition, McGraw Hill Inc.
   
• Gilbert Strang, Introduction to Linear Algebra, 4th Edition, 2009
  http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/videos.shtml

Topics

• Algorithms (Ch. 3)
• Graphs (Ch. 10)
• Matrix Algebra
• Unconstrained Optimization
• Modeling Computation (Ch. 13)

Exams, Project and Grading

• Homework: 10%
• Class participation: 5%
• Quizzes: 25%
• Midterm: 30%
• Final: 30%

  Homework: Homework due dates are on Tuesday. Late homework will result in a penalty. You will be allowed to drop your lowest three homework grades. 

  Class attendance: Class attendance is expected, and may be recorded from time to time. Absences for legitimate professional activities and illnesses are acceptable only if prior notice is given to the instructor by e-mail or phone. Scheduling conflicts with your work, extra-curricular activities, or any other such activities is not a valid excuse. Although attendance is not a specific part of the course evaluation it has a direct effect on class participation. If you are not in class you cannot participate. Class participation means that you attend class regularly and have completed your assigned readings. It means that you ask relevant questions and make informed comments in class. Class participation will contribute to the final grade.

  Quizzes: Each week there will be one 20 - 25 minute quiz based on the homework assignment for the previous week. There will be no make up quizzes; however, you will be allowed to drop your lowest three quiz grades. Each quiz will be worth 20pts. You may bring one letter size page filled with your own notes to each quiz.

  Exams: If you miss a midterm for an emergency [as agreed ahead of time with the instructor], there will be no makeup exam: the other exams will become proportionally more important. If you miss any exam without prior agreement, and without definitive proof as to the reasons, you will get a zero. If you miss the final and do not make alternative arrangements before grades are turned in you will be graded F.

  Homework and Quiz Schedule: Homework that is due on Monday (beginning of the recitation)  is based on lectures of the previous week. 
  Graded homework will be returned and discussed a week later during the recitation. 
  The quiz on Tuesday is testing the material covered during the previous week.
  Thus, it coincides in the scope with the homework that was due on Monday.

Honor Code

• All work submitted for credit must be your own.
• You may discuss the homework problems with your classmates, the teaching assistant, and the instructor. You must acknowledge the people with whom you discussed your work, and you must write up your own solutions and code. Any written sources (apart from the text) used must also be acknowledged; however, you may not consult any solutions from previous years' assignments whether they are student or faculty generated.
• Plagiarism will be handled with severe measures.
• Please ask if you have any questions about the Honor Code. Violations of the honor code will be treated seriously. Please check the Temple University policy on Plagiarism and Academic Cheating.

Disabilities

I encourage students with disabilities, including "invisible" disabilities such as chronic diseases and learning disabilities, to discuss with us any appropriate accommodations that we might make on their behalf. Student must provide me with a note from the office of Disability Resources and Services at in 100 Ritter Annex, 215-204-1280, regarding their disability.