CS151 - Discrete Structures 1

NUIMCrest CS151 - Discrete Structures 1
Department of Computer Science
National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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Academic year: 2005-2006. Semester: I

CS151 module objective and module content

Students: 1^st yr B.Sc. (CSSE), 1^st yr B.A., 1^st yr B.A. (Finance), 1^st yr B.Sc. (Venture Management), 1^st yr B.Sc. (Music Technology)

Course text: James L. Hein, Discrete Structures, Logic, and Computability, Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0763718432

Timetable of lectures for this year

Lectures times
Time: Thursday 13h Th2, Thursday 17h Th1
Location: ThX - Theatre X in the Arts Block

Tutorials
Fridays 11h APT, New Student Apartments tutorial room
Repeat tutorial Fridays 14:00 CS1, Callan Extension Building

Consultation Hours
Immediately after lectures and tutorials, or any time you can find me in Office 2.104 (Callan Extension, upstairs)

Handouts (Click the icons below to view files in PDF format and click the icons below to view files in gzip compressed PostScript format)
The course is about understanding discrete structures, and how to use them, rather than learning facts and definitions. This handout will be available to you during the final exam in January.

Class tests

Class test 1 Sample solutions (27 October 2005, 13:00)
Class test 2 Sample solutions (27 October 2005, 17:00)
Class test 3 Sample solutions (8 December 2005, 13:00)
Repeat class test (15 December 2005, 18:00)

Continuous assessment
Continuous assessment (CA) will be worth 20% of the final mark for the course. Tests 1 and 2 will each be worth one quarter of CA, and test 3 will be worth half of CA.

Student grades from tests 1 and 2
Student grades from test 3 (includes total CA grade)

Previous exam papers

Selected sample solutions to exam papers

http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~tnaughton