Welcome

Welcome to the Summer 2020 iteration of CIS 160!

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Most questions should be directed to Piazza. However, if you need to get in contact with the course staff for an urgent matter, please email us at cis160@seas.upenn.edu.

Course Learning Objectives

• Decipher and manipulate mathematical notation for sets, functions, operations, and relations, as applied to discrete modeling of computational problems.
• Construct informal but rigorous mathematical proofs.
• Apply combinatorial techniques to counting problems that arise in computation.
• Build discrete probabilistic models for random processes and behaviors that arise in computation.
• Apply graph theory to modeling problems that can be solved with computational methods.

Grading

Your final grade will consist of:

• 30% - Exam 1
• 30% - Exam 2
• 25% - Homework
• 10% - Recitation Participation
• 5% - Interactive Session Participation

Collaboration Policy

Please read the collaboration policy in detail.

Textbook

There is no required or recommended textbook for this course. A textbook that can be referred to for extra reading is ''Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction'' by E. A. Scheinerman.