CSE 150 - Honors Foundations of Computer Science

Fall 2006 

Professor

Michael A. Bender

1412 Computer Science Bldg
Phone: 631-632-7835
Office Hours: TU 11:30 am-12:30 pm; TH 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Office Hours Location: CS 1412.
Email:bender@cs.sunysb.edu.

Teaching Assistant

Roman Kogan

Office Hours: MO WE 4:30 pm-5:30pm
Office Hours Location: Computer Science Bldg, outside CS 1412
Email: rkogan@ic.sunysb.edu.

Lecture Time and Place

TUTH   12:50-2:10
Physics P129

Recitation Time and Place

TH   11:20 pm - 12:40 pm
Old Chemistry 135

More Course Information

  • REQUIREMENTS: problem sets every 1-2 weeks and two exams. Attendence and class participation are manditory. If external motivation needs to be applied, I may assign some 1-2 quizes during the semester.
  • Course Procedures
  • Official university calander and University registrar academic calendars.
  • The add-drop date is Tuesday, November 7, 2006 according to the University registrar academic calendars.
  • The midterm exam is Tuesday, October 31, 2006.
  • The final exam is Thursday, December 21 at 11:00am-1:30pm according to Stony Brook final examination schedule. The location is Harriman 111.
  • Lecture schedule
  • NOTE: there will be no makeups for the exams.
  • Handouts

  • Problem Set 1. Source files. Problem Set 1 Solutions.
  • Some beautiful course notes by S. Devadas and E. Lehman. logic, proofs, induction part one, induction part two, induction part three.
  • Problem Set 2. Source latex, and figures one, checkerboard.png, and lattice_walk.png. Problem Set 2 Solutions.
  • Problem Set 3. Source latex.
  • Problem Set 4. Source latex.
  • 2005 Midterm.
  • 2005 Final.
  • Scribing Organization and Technical Writing Hints

  • Latex style file for scribe notes: cse 638.sty
  • How to generate scribe notes: Exa mple .tex file PostScript Version
  • A nice guide to LaTex.