CS173: Discrete Structures
Spring 2016, Margaret Fleck
Examinations

The final exam will be held in 217 Noyes (only section ADI, i.e. Monday 5pm) and Lincoln Theater (all other discussion sections), from 7 to 9pm on Thursday May 12.

Make sure to bring your photo ID

You will have 1.5 hours to finish a 4-page final (2 pages on new material, 2 pages of review) plus an optional retake of one examlet. The 2-hour timeslot includes some extra time to pass out and collect exam papers. So that we can spread out the slow process of handing out retake examlets, we'll do things as follows:

If you wish to do a retake, you must fill out the following form, no later than 11pm on Monday May 9th.


The examlets will be given at the start of class on Thursdays, starting in the third week of classes. Before the first examlet, you must read the exam instructions. These instructions will NOT be reprinted with each examlet.

The listed chapters and skills are the new skills for each examlet. The examlet will focus on these new skills. However, be aware that you're still expected to remember concepts from earlier in the term. Do the corresponding Study Problems before each examlet. Ideally, do this early enough that you can bring questions (if you have any) into office hours.

The information (e.g. the skills list) for each examlet should be viewed as tentative until a week before the examlet date. We don't expect large changes but there might be small ones.


 
Examlet Date Textbook sections Skills list Examlet Solutions
#1: Prerequisites and Logic 4 February Chapters 1 and 2, excluding 1.5-1.6 Examlet 1 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#2: Number theory 11 February Chapters 3 and 4, excluding 4.12-4.14 Examlet 2 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#3: Set theory (and modular arithmetic) 18 February 4.12-4.14, Chapter 5 Examlet 3 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#4: Relations 25 February Chapter 6 Examlet 4 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#5: Functions 3 March Chapters 7 and 8 Examlet 5 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#6: Graphs 10 March Chapter 9 Examlet 6 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#7: Two-way bounding, Easy Induction 17 March 1.5, Chapter 10, 11.1-11.7 Examlet 7 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#8: Induction, Recursive Definition 31 March Chapters 11 and 12 Examlet 8 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#9: Trees, Grammars 7 April 1.6, Chapter 13 (but not 13.6, 13.7) Examlet 9 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#10: Big-O, Recursion Trees 14 April 13.6, 13.7, Chapter 14 Examlet 10 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#11: Algorithms, NP 21 April Chapters 15, 16 Examlet 11 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
#12: Contradiction, Collections of Sets 28 April Chapters 17, 18 Examlet 12 skills A sheet
B sheet
A sheet
B sheet
Final: State Diagrams, Countability Thursday 12 May, 7-10pm Chapters 19, 20 Final examlet skills version 1
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