CSCE 235H - Introduction to Discrete Structures (Honors)

Spring 2017

Resources & Announcements

• Classes begin Monday, January 9, 2017
• Piazza is the discussion board. All questions and comments to instructor, TAs (private) and to class (broadcast) and all online discussions must be done through Piazza. You can state your name or write anonymously. No email messages sent directly will be answered.
• Handin: Homework must be submitted on handin
• Canvas: All grades will be posted on Canvas.
• Detailed schedule
• Wiki
• Anonymous Suggestion Box

General Info

Detailed Schedule

Handouts & Files

Rules & Tools for Success

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Introduction (PPT)
• Logical Equivalences Cheat Sheet (PDF).
• How to Prepare for an Exam (PPT).

Slides

• Logic (PPT, PDF)
• Logical Equivalences Cheat Sheet (PDF).
• Predicates & Quantifiers (PPT, PDF)
• Proofs (PPT, PDF)
• Sets (PPT, PDF)
• Functions (PPT, PDF)
• Relations (PPT, PDF)
• Partial Orders (PPT, PDF).
• Induction (PPT, PDF).
• Algorithms (PPT, PDF).
• Algorithms Analysis (PPT, PDF).
• Asymptotics (PPT, PDF).
• Sequences and Summations (PPT, PDF).
• Recursion (PPT, PDF).
• Master Theorem (PPT, PDF).
• Combinatorics (PPT, PDF).

Homework

• All homework are due before class on the due date (by 11:30 A.M.).
• Checklist: Guidelines for Submitting Homework (.pdf)


• Homework 01 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Jan 20, 2017
• Homework 02 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Jan 27, 2017
• Homework 03 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 3, 2017
• Homework 04 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 10, 2017
• Homework 05 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 17, 2017
• Homework 06 (.pdf) - Due Monday, Feb 27, 2017
• Homework 06 Encore (.pdf) - Due Friday, Mar 3, 2017
• Homework 07 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Mar 10, 2017
• Homework 08 (.pdf) - Due Monday, Mar 27, 2017
• Homework 09 (.pdf) - Due Monday, Apr 3, 2017
• Homework 10 (.pdf) - Due Monday, Apr 10, 2017
• Homework 11 (.pdf) - Due Moday, Apr 17 2017
• Homework 12 (.pdf) - Due Monday, Apr 24, 2017
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  (If using a late forgiveness, the homework is due Friday Apr 28, 2017 by 11:30 am.)

SAT Study

• Week 1: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Jan 30, 2017
• Week 2: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Feb 13, 2017
• Week 3: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Feb 20, 2017
• Week 4: SATviz (satviz.unl.edu), Homework (PDF) - Due Mar 6, 2017
• Week 5: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF) (verifySudoku.pl)- Due Mar 27, 2017
• Week 6: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF) (SudokuInstances.tar.gz) - Due Apr 3, 2017
• Week 7: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF) (ImplicationGraphTemplate.ppt) - Due Apr 10, 2017

Recitations

• Week 1: Working with Latex: Introduction To LaTeX, LaTexHowTo.doc, hw-example.tex, hw-example.pdf, BibliographyFile.bib. Here are the figures (which can be generated with any drawing software): FIG, EPS, PDF. The example Hello World shown in recitation. If tables become to large, you can place a table sideways. An example tex file is given with its pdf output.
• Informal notes from Recitation on PL (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation Proofs in PL and FOL (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation Proofs and FOL (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation Proofs and Sets (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on Sets (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on Relations (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on Transitive Closure and Partial Orders (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on Partial Orders (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on Induction (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation Week on Asymptotics and Summations (PDF, TEX)
• Informal notes from Recitation on solving Recurrence Relations (PDF, TEX)

Useful Links

• A nice overview of the various types of proofs with examples .
• Proofs by induction: Great pointers identified by Geoffrey Priester
  • Induction exercises by Devadas and Lehman: Induction I, Induction II, Induction III.
  • Proof by induction on YouTube: Example I, Example 2, Example 3.
• Common Mistakes in Discrete Math, from textbook's page.
• Online Learning Center of the textbook
• CSE 235 webhandin
• Dr. Scott's Tips On Technical Writing
• UNL Computer Science and Engineering Academic Integrity Policy
• Book Of Proof, by Richard Hammack (pdf)
• Java
  • Java Tutorials
  • Using Commandline Arguments
  • Java for C++ Programmers
  • Java IDEs
    • Netbeans IDE
    • Eclipse IDE
• C++
  • Java to C++ Transition Tutorial
  • C++ For Java Programmers (PDF, Lecture series)
  • C++ Tutorial
  • Makefile Tutorials: one, Another
  • Using Command Line Arguments example
  • Cornell's Numerical Recipes in C
• Code Documentation
  • C++ Coding Standard
  • JavaDoc -- The original documentation tool for Java
  • CppDoc Platform independent C++ documentation tool that produces HTML
  • PHP Doc Documentation tool for PHP code.
• LaTeX
  • LaTex on Wikibooks
  • Example Homework LaTeX document (TEX, PDF). Here are the figures files (which you could generate with your favorite drawing software): FIG, EPS, PDF.
  • TeX Users Group
  • Getting Started With LaTeX
  • LaTeX Tutorial
  • The Not-So-Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (PDF)
  • LaTeX Quick Reference Card (.pdf)
  • The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (.pdf)
  • MikTeX -- A Windows LaTeX Distro (Includes TeXworks, a LaTeX Frontend)
  • WinEDT -- A Windows LaTeX Frontend (Shareware, a free alternative is TeXworks which comes included in MiKTeX)
  • LyX -- User Friendly LaTeX Frontend
  • MacTeX -- An OS X LaTeX Distro (Includes TeXworks and TeXShop, two LaTeX Frontends)
  • TeXnicle -- An OS X LaTeX Application (can update the pdf live as you type, and includes other features such as autocompletion)
  • Texmaker -- A cross-platform LaTeX editor (includes many nice features)
  • Excel2Latex -- Useful for converting Excel tables to LaTeX. It is helpful to uncheck all the options when converting the table, and \usepackage{bigstrut} in your document.
  • Calc2Latex -- Useful for converting OpenOffice Calc tables to LaTeX.
  • Classify LaTeX Symbols -- Draw the symbol you are looking for