Lecture 1

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

  1. Describe the course objectives in general terms.
  2. Describe your responsibilities regarding: following deadlines and instructions, participation, and reading assignments.
  3. Schedule your activities to accommodate the assignment deadlines and exams.
  4. Explain different components of the assessment process that contribute to your final grade.
  5. Explain course policies regarding attendance, missed exams, late assignment, an "I" grade, and professional ethics.
  6. Explain some study skills that can help you do well in this course.
  7. Use properties of exponents, logarithms, geometric series, and modular arithmetic to simplify expressions.
  8. Write proofs using induction and contradiction, and also disprove claims using counter-examples.

Reading assignment

  1. Read the syllabus on blackboard.
  2. Read the study tips for this course on Blackboard, under the 'course library' tab.
  3. Review material from your C++ course. The review topics are available at www.cs.fsu.edu/~asriniva/courses/DS14/review/PrereqReview.html.
  4. Sections 1.1 - 1.2.
  5. Lecture: Math Review.
  6. Section 1.3, up to page 8.

Exercises and review questions


Last modified: 24 Aug 2014