CSCE 235H - Introduction to Discrete Structures (Honors)

Spring 2020

Resources & Announcements

• Online Syllabus (PDF)
• LockDown Broswer (PDF)
• Classes begin Monday, January 13, 2020
• 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
• Anonymous Suggestion Box

General Info

Lectures: MWF, 12:30 -- 1:20 pm, Avery Hall 119
Recitations: Mondays, 1:30 pm -- 2:20 pm, Zoom meeting room

Dr. Berthe Y. Choueiry, Zoom meeting room
Office hours: Mondays and Fridays, 4:30 pm -- 5:30 pm or by appointment

Mr. Tyler Bienhoff (Grader)
Office hour: Wednesdays, 1:30 pm -- 2:30 pm Zoom meeting room or by appointment

Mr. Daniel Guo (Grader)
Office hour: Fridays, 11:30 am -- 12:30 pm Zoom meeting room or by appointment

Mr. Chris Wieskamp (Grader)
Office hour: Mondays, 10:00 am -- 11:30 am Zoom meeting room or by appointment

Detailed Schedule

Handouts & Files

Rules & Tools for Success

• Online Syllabus (PDF)
• LockDown Broswer (PDF)
• Latex Useful Commands (PDF)
• Syllabus (PDF)
• Introduction (PPTX)
• Logical Equivalences Cheat Sheet (PDF).
• How to Prepare for an Exam (PPTX).

Slides

• Logic (PPTX).
• Logical Equivalences Cheat Sheet (PDF).
• Predicates & Quantifiers (PPTX).
• Proofs (PPTX).
• Sets (PPTX).
• Functions (PPTX).
• Relations: original slides (PPTX), slides of videos (PPTX), Videos: Relations-P1 (Review), Relations-P2 (Warshall Algorithm), Relations-P3 (Equivalence Relations).
• Partial Orders ( PPTX). Video: POSET-P1 (Partial Orders), POSET-P2 (Principle of Well Ordered Induction), POSET-P3 (Lexicographic order), POSET-P4 (Hasse Diagrams), POSET-P5 (Extremal Elements), POSET-P6 (Lattices), POSET-P7 (Topological Sorting).
• Induction ( PPTX). Videos: Induction-P1 (Induction), Induction-E1 (Example 1), Induction-E2 (Example 2), Induction-E3 (Example 3), Induction-E4 (Example 4), Induction-E5 (Example 5), Induction-E6 (Example 6),Induction-P2 (Strong Induction), Induction-E7 (Example 7), Induction-E8 (Example 8).
• Algorithms (PPTX). Videos: Algorithms-P1, Algorithms-P2, Algorithms-P3.
• Algorithms Analysis (PPTX). Videos: Algorithms-P4 Algorithms-P5
• Asymptotics (PPTX). Videos: Asymptotics-P1 Asymptotics-P2
• Sequences and Summations (PPTX). Videos: Sequences-P1 Sequences-P2
• Recursion (PPTX). Videos: Recursion-P1, Recursion-P2, Recursion-P3, Recursion-P4. Recursion-P5. Recursion-P6.
• Master Theorem (PPTX). Video: Master Theorem.
• Combinatorics (PPTX). Videos: Combinatorics-1, Combinatorics-2, Combinatorics-3, Combinatorics-4, Combinatorics-5, Combinatorics-6.

Homework

• All homework are due before class on the due date (by 12:30 P.M.).
• Checklist: Guidelines for Submitting Homework (.pdf)


• Homework 01 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Jan 24, 2020
• Homework 02 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Jan 31, 2020
• Homework 03 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 7, 2020
• Homework 04 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 14, 2020
• Homework 05 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 21, 2020
• Homework 06 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Feb 28, 2020
• Homework 07 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Mar 6, 2020
• Homework 08 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Mar 13, 2020
• Homework 09 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Apr 3, 2020
• Homework 10 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Apr 10, 2020
• Homework 11 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Apr 17, 2020
• Homework 12 (.pdf) - Due Friday, Apr 24, 2020
• Homework 13 (.pdf) - Due Friday, May 1, 2020
  

SAT Study

• Two Sudoku Rules in Conjunctive Normal Form (TEX, PDF)
• Week 1: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Feb 3, 2020
• Search Tree powerpoint example (SearchTree.pptx)
• Week 2: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Feb 10, 2020
• Week 3: Slides (PPT, PDF), Homework (PDF) - Due Feb 17, 2020
• DIMACS cnf example file (test.cnf)
• Week 4: SATviz (satviz.unl.edu), Homework (PDF) (GenerateSudoku.java) - Due Feb 24, 2020
• Week 5: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF)- Due Mar 2, 2020
• Week 6: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF) (SudokuInstances.tar.gz) - Due Mar 9, 2020
• Week 7: Slides (PPT) (PDF), Homework (PDF) (ImplicationGraphTemplate.ppt) - Due Mar 30, 2020

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 for 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 and Functions(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

• Discrete Math
• 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.
• A Guide to Proof-Writing, from textbook's page.
• Online Learning Center of the textbook
• Book Of Proof, by Richard Hammack (pdf)
• CSE 235 webhandin
• SAT
• A three-part introduction to SAT solving on Coding Nest: Part 1, Part2, Part3.
• Dr. Scott's Tips On Technical Writing
• UNL Computer Science and Engineering Academic Integrity Policy
• 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 Tutorial
  • Using Command Line Arguments example
  • Cornell's Numerical Recipes in C
• Code Documentation
  • C++ Coding Standard
  • JavaDoc -- The original documentation tool for Java
  • 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)
  • 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