| Course Description |
This course teaches fundamental tools, ideas, and principles underlying the field of computer science. The class trains students to rigorously formulate and solve problems relevant to all areas of computer science. It challenges students to develop their general reasoning ability.
The course will include topics such as: logic and proofs; sets, functions, relations, sequences and summations; counting; fundamentals of the analysis of algorithms; proof techniques; recursion; finite state machines; pushdown automata; computability and undecidability.
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| Location |
ETB 2005 |
Time |
MWF 11:30am - 12:20pm |
| Instructor |
Philip C. Ritchey
| Email: |
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| Office: |
HRBB 326 |
| Office Hours: |
MR 2pm - 4pm and by appointment
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| Teaching Assistant |
Jan Dufek
| Email: |
dufek@tamu.edu |
| Office: |
RDMC 021 |
| Office Hours: |
T 4pm - 5pm, F 12:45pm - 1:45pm, and by appointment
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| Sunday Q&A |
Sundays 3pm - 5pm in HRBB 113/124/126.
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| Peer Teachers |
The website containing the office hours for the peer teachers is http://engineering.tamu.edu/cse/academics/peer-teachers/current-peer-teachers
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| LaTeX |
Homework must be typeset using LaTeX. |
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See Dr. Lee's slides for details. |
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Please check on this webpage for downloading LaTex and getting started with it. |
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(The Not So Short) Introduction to LaTex |
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Short Math Guide for LaTex (for reference) |
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Comprehensive LaTex Symbol List (for reference) |