Foundations of Computer Science

• CourseDevelopment pages under development

• SemanticWebEducationalResources too!

Info below is for the Fall 2004 course (Olin ENGR 3520, Fall 2004). Welcome!

Current Notes and Assignments

• See also CourseCalendar. These links should percolate down to their respective sections when they are no longer current.

  • Final exam is available now online at http://focs.olin.edu/documents/focs-exam-3.pdf

    • in spite of a typo, it's a three hour exam (with the usual caveats about timing not being strict)
    • you may take it during the designated final exam period Friday 1-4 in AC318 or elsewhere/elsewhen
    • Please contact me if you have any questions, concerns, unclearness, .... I will be on campus Weds and Fri and working from home on Thurs; use IM or email anywhereor cell on campus and home phone eves/Thurs.

  • WhatYouShouldKnow -- a running count, plus resources

  • WrittenAssignment6: due Friday 12/10 3pm on paper at AC312 (apologies for early deadline)

  • ProjectAssignment5: due end of semester

  • Lecture - Friday NotesDecember10

  • Lecture - Tuesday NotesDecember7

  • Project: Tuesday NotesNovember30Proj

Bazaar

• AskQuestions - use this page to ask questions about lectures and/or assignments, or post cool solutions to problems you encounter.

• SideChatter

• ReadingRoom - growing steadily. There are many special topics subpages and this includes textbook page references. Help us develop, PLEASE!

• AlgorithmAnimations - Film screening fun!

• Here is the python continuation discussion and here is the python validator for propositional logic. You can ignore these links, and they belong somewhere else, but I am putting them here rather than nowhere at all. Someone can move them to today's notes or a ReadingRoom entry.

All Notes

• Please SignUpToTakeNotes on a certain day, and post a page with your notes here. If they are for today's lecture they should also go up with the Current stuff at the top of the page.

  • Lecture 1 - Friday NotesSeptember3 (scheme, abstract data types(ADTs))

  • Lecture 2 - Tuesday NotesSeptember7 (scheme, ADTs-stacks, big-O notation)

    • - Project Lecture 1 - NotesSeptember7Proj (htmlprag, webcrawler assmt)

  • Lecture 3 - Friday NotesSeptember10 (queue, tail recursion, order-of-growth)

  • Lecture 4 - Tuesday NotesSeptember14

    • - Project Lecture 2 - NotesSeptember14Proj

  • Lecture 5 - Friday - NotesSeptember17

  • Lecture 6 - Tuesday: NotesSeptember21

    • Project Lecture 3: NotesSeptember21Proj

  • Lecture 7 - Friday NotesSeptember24 (finite state automata)

  • Lecture 8 - Tuesday NotesSeptember28 (FSAs and regular expressions)

    • Project Lecture 4: NotesSeptember28Proj

• a more exhaustive but less descriptive list:

• === Individual Notes Collection ===

  • FrancesNotes

All Assignments

• Written/Vanilla FoCS

  • WrittenAssignment1 due, done

  • WrittenAssignment2: due Tuesday 9/28

  • WrittenAssignment3: due Friday 10/22

  • WrittenAssignment4: due Tuesday 11/2

  • WrittenAssignment5: due Tuesday 11/30

  • WrittenAssignment6: due Friday 12/10 at 3pm

  • Solutions to Written 3 and Written 4 should be online now.

• Project

  • ProjectAssignment1 due, done

  • ProjectAssignment1.5 due Tuesday 9/21: crawler plus some html tree hacking

  • ProjectAssignment2 due 12 October

  • ProjectAssignment3 due 26 October

  • ProjectAssignment4 due 9 November

  • ProjectAssignment5 due end of semester

• Exams

  • Exam2 You may take this at any time before 5pm Tuesday 16 November. The class session on Friday 12 November will be available for taking the exam.

More Course Resources

• === What's the plan? ===

  • Syllabus-like things: EmergingSyllabus, CourseTopics, CourseCalendar (last most up to date but least descriptive)

  • Front page from summer course development work: CourseDevFrontPage

  === Get your learning on ===

  • ReadingRoom (increasingly well populated, includes Online resources, subpages for specific topics)

    • An older, less organized and less triaged page of online resources: CourseLinks

  • Textbooks: TextbookPolicy, CourseTextbooks, Topics2Textbooks

  === Communicate ===
  • Emails from Lynn pre-mailing-list

    • EmailFromLynn9September

    • EmailFromLynn13September (2 messages)

    • EmailFromLynn14September

  • Mailing list archive

  • Mailing list archive for project

  === Clicker! ===

  • http://lemming.research.olin.edu/clicker (internal only)

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