Lectures and tutorials
Lectures take place Monday and Wednesday from 12:10-13:00 (LEC0201) and 13:10-14:00 (LEC0101/LEC2000) at UC 140 (University College).
Week | Lecture slides (raw) | Annotated (12:00) | Annotated (13:00) | Tutorial |
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Week 1: Simple induction | w1.pdf | w1_lec1_annotated.pdf | w1_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex1.pdf (solutions) |
Week 2: Complete induction | w2.pdf | w2_lec1_annotated.pdf (with post-hoc annotations/context) | w2_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex2.pdf (solutions) |
Week 3: Structural induction & well-ordering | w3.pdf | w3_lec1_annotated.pdf | w3_lec2_annotated.pdf (with post-hoc annotations/context) | ex3.pdf (solutions) |
Week 4: Runtime of recursive algorithms, unwinding | w4.pdf | w4_lec1_annotated.pdf | w4_lec2_annotated.pdf (with post-hoc annotations/context) | ex4.pdf (solutions, quiz 1, quiz 2) |
Week 5: Master Theorem | w5.pdf | w5_lec1_annotated.pdf (with post-hoc annotations) | w5_lec2_annotated.pdf | no tutorial this week |
Week 6: Recursive correctness | w6.pdf | w6_lec1_annotated.pdf (with post-hoc annotations) | w6_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex6.pdf (solutions, quiz 1, quiz 2) |
Week 7: Iterative (partial) correctness | w7.pdf | w7_lec1_annotated.pdf | w7_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex7.pdf (solutions, quiz 1, quiz 2) |
Week 8: Proving termination | w8.pdf (extra: cleaned up writeup of merge partial correctness proof covered in lecture) | w8_lec1_annotated.pdf | w8_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex8.pdf (solutions, quiz 1, quiz 2) |
Week 9: Formal languages/REs | w9.pdf | w9_lec1_annotated.pdf | w9_lec2_annotated.pdf | ex9.pdf (solutions) |
Week 10: Finite state machines | w10.pdf (bonus slide: DFA correctness recipe) | w10_annotated.pdf | Video recordings: Pt 1, finite state automata; Pt 2, DFA correctness and NFAs | ex10.pdf; solutions; quiz solutions: v1, v2, v3, v5, v6, |
Week 11: DFSA/NFSA/RE equivalence, closure results | No lecture slides/recordings this week. Instead read sections 7.4.2-7.6.2 of Vassos notes. See also this Piazza post | ex11.pdf; ex11_solutions.pdf; quiz solutions: v1 (B-less), v2 (Extra), v3 (Evenstar), v4 (Oddstar) | ||
Week 12: Proving nonregularity | w12.pdf | w12_annotated.pdf | Lecture video recording | ex12.pdf; ex12_solutions.pdf; quiz v1; quiz v2 |
Tutorial format
Each week a set of tutorial exercises will be posted that relate to the topics discussed in lecture. You should attempt these exercises before coming to tutorial on Friday. During tutorial, your TA will take questions about the exercises and go over solutions. Solutions will also be uploaded to the course website after tutorials.
Because the tutorial exercises are not graded, you are allowed, and encouraged, to work with other students on them, and to discuss solutions on the discussion board.
During the last 10-15 minutes of tutorial, TAs will distribute a short (typically single-question) quiz. Graded quizzes will be returned in the next tutorial. Each quiz is worth 2% and will be graded on a scale of 0/1/2:
- 2: Perfect, or having only minor errors
- 1: A partial solution with a major missing piece or error
- 0: Anything else
There will be ten quizzes. The quiz during the first week will be just for practice. The remaining nine will together be worth 18% of your final grade.
Tutorial rooms
Tutorials are on Friday at the same time as lecture. Please use the table below to determine your tutorial room. Important: beginning Friday January 24th, several tutorial sections will be held in new rooms. Rooms in bold are different from the previous schedule.
Surname range | 12:10-13:00 | 13:10-14:00 |
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A-Gu | ||
Gv-Mo | UC144 | UC144 |
Mp-Tu | UC152 | |
Tv-Z | UC330 |
Name ranges are inclusive. For example, if your last name is 'Morris', you should go to UC144 for tutorial.