CSC373 Home Page (Winter/Spring 2008)
Announcements for the week of April 14.
All problem sets and tests that have not yet been
claimed can be picked up in the office of
Ms. Elizabeth Ribeiro (SF2301D). As per the usual procedure for
regrading requests, you must write an explanation as
to why you think a particular question was not graded fairly
and I will ask the relevant TA to look at it again.
If I am not in my office you may slip the request under my
door or give it to Elizabeth Ribeiro.
This page will provide general course information and access to
various documents concerning CSC373.
Weekly announcements for the course
will be posted on this web site. The required text is
"Algorithm Design"
by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos.
The text "Introduction to Algorithms"
(second edition) by Corman, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein is an additional
good reference.
Some further course information is contained in the
brief course syllabus
that was handed out during the first lecture.
Students are encouraged to check
the undergrad announcements (UGA) website
which contains announcements about things
such as job and scholarship opportunities, academic and social events,
and reminders of administrative deadlines.
Please send any comments or questions to the instructor:
The following grading scheme will be used for this course: 3 assignments
(worth 5% each),
3 term tests (closely related to the assignments and worth 15% each)
and a final 3 hour exam worth 40%. As will be
discussed in class, every (sub) problem in any assignment or test
will be worth some multiple of 5 points. You will receive 1/5 points for
any (sub) problem for which you state "I do not know how to
answer this question". You will receive .5/5 if you leave a question
blank. If instead you submit irrelevant or
erroneous answers you will lose the 1/5 points. That is, you will
receive some credit for knowing what you don't know. You can also
receive some additional credit for partial work that is
clearly "on the right track". Even if the assignments are worth only
5% each, you are still obliged to submit your own work. In our first
lecture, I will give a
pragmatic definition for distiguishing between genuine learning together
and plagarism. If you have any questions please see the instructor immediately!
Any cases of plagarism will be reported to the Faculty.
Schedule for assignments and term tests: Assignments are due
at the start of the lecture held on the indicated date. I will
answer questions about the assignments as soon as the assignments
are submitted and hence I will not accept late assignments.
Assignments: January 30, March 5, April 2.
Term Tests: February 1, March 7, April 4.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I allow one page (double-sided) handwritten notes
as an aid in all my tests and exams.
Here are the
free
lecture notes
that have been used previously in CSC364 and CSC366.
You may also find it helpful to look at the problem sets and other handouts
for the most recent versions of
CSC373 and
CSC375
that I have taught.
Problem Sets, Tests and Other Handouts will be posted here.
Problem set 1 in pdf format
Problem set 2 in pdf format
Problem set 3 in pdf format