Instructor: Kumar Madhukar (madhukar)

Office hours:

• Wednesdays, 2:00-2:30 pm
• Thursdays, 2:00-2:30 pm

Lecture slot and venue

Lectures (for both G3 and G4):    Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:00-11:20 am, in Classroom 8.

Tutorials (for G4)    Wednesdays, 01:00-01:50 pm, in Classroom 2.
Tutorials (for G3)    Thursdays, 01:00-01:50 pm, in Classroom 1.

(These slots/venues may be changed occasionally. Please check the weekly schedule that is sent over email.)

Attendance Sheet

Your attendance in the course lectures and tutorials is being recorded here.
Note that total and percentage calculations towards the right end of the sheet have been made under the assumption that you will be present in all future lectures and tutorials.

Announcements

• Course calendar updated on April 23rd. We are going to have some extra lectures, to make up for the lectures that we lost. The first of these extra classes is scheduled on April 24th, from 11 am to 12 noon. During this class (on April 24th), we will first take a look at all the updates made in the course calendar, and then continue with the lecture on counting.
  
  
• Note that the slots/venues of the lectures and tutorials are subject to occasional changes. Please cross-check this with the weekly schedule that is sent over email.
  
  
• The course calendar has been updated! Please take a look. The days of all the lectures, tutorials (with and without submissions), and the quizzes have been marked clearly. The quizzes will be conducted in the class itself, during the class time. Note that there are 14 tutorial sessions -- 10 in which a submission will have to be made in the classroom, and 4 extra ones (marked in orange in the calendar).
  
  
• We will have the introductory lecture for this course on Tuesday, 14th Jan, at 10:00 am in Classroom 8.
  
  
• All announcements will be made here (urgent announcements will also be made on Teams). Please do check this section of this page at least once every day.

Course Calendar

Suggested Books and Reference Material

• Connecting Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science by David Liben-Nowell (Cambridge University Press).
• Mathematics for Computer Science by E. Lehman, F. T. Leighton, and A. R. Meyer (Lecture notes from Spring 2018, MIT Open Courseware).

Evaluation and Assessment

• Tutorial Submissions: 28 marks. You will have to make 10 tutorial submissions, each of 4 marks, of which we will count the best 7 submissions.
  
  
• Quizzes: 12 marks. There will be 3 quizzes of 6 marks each, of which we will count the best 2. The dates of the quizzes have been indicated clearly in the course calendar (above).
  
  
• Minor/Mid-term exam: 25 marks
  
  
• Major/End-term exam: 35 marks
  
  
• There will be zero tolerance for dishonest means (including attendance proxy/fraud, copying or sharing solutions in quizzes/exams/assignments, use of mobile phones or other prohibited gadgets, etc.). Offenders will secure an F grade for themselves straight away.

Additional notes/reference material