COMP 283 Discrete Structures (Summer 2017)

Announcements

• 2017/6/22: Your Final Exam grade and Overall letter grade have been sent to you via email. If you have not received that email, please contact me as soon as possible.
• 2017/6/19: I will be in Sitterson Hall on Tuesday almost the whole afternoon (about 1:00 PM to 4:45PM). Feel free to drop by my office to ask questions or to pick up your graded last homework. I may not be my office due to other duties, but I can be back to my office in a couple of minutes. So, if I am not in my office, please send me an email; an advanced email to let me know your arrival time will be also helpful.
• 2017/6/16: Final Exam on 6/22, Thursday, 11:30 AM (different from our regular lecture time), in FB 009 (our regular lecture location). See lecture schedule for details.
• 2017/6/1: Midterm Exam on 6/7, Wednesday, in class. See lecture schedule for details.
• 2017/5/19: Optional self-check exercises are added in the lecture schedule.

General Information

• Meeting Place: FB 009
• Meeting Time: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, MoTuWeThFr(every weekday)
• Instructor: Kecheng Yang (Email: yangk [at] cs [dot] unc [dot] edu)
• Office Hours: 2:50 PM - 4:00 PM, TuTh, or by appointment, in SN 139
• Announcements will be posted and homework problem sets will be distributed on this course homepage.
• Questions and discussions related to this course are encouraged to post on the Piazza.

Academic Information

• The UNC Undergraduate Bulletin description of this course is:

  Introduces discrete structures (sets, tuples, relations, functions, graphs, trees) and the formal mathematics (logic, proof, induction) used to establish their properties and those of algorithms that work with them. Develops problem-solving skills through puzzles and applications central to computer science.

• The syllabus for this semester is here.
• Textbook: Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 4th Edition, by Susanna S. Epp
• Prerequisite: MATH 231 (Calculus of Functions of One Variable - I) or MATH 241 (BioCalculus I)

Schedule and Materials

• Lecture schedule can be found here.
• All course materials, including slides and homework problem sets, will be posted in the schedule once they are ready.

Acknowledgement: some course materials are adapted from instructor's materials distributed with the textbook, materials in prior offerings of this course by Profs. Sanjoy Baruah, David Plaisted, and Michael Reiter, and the book "Reasoning and Writing in the Mathematics Underlying Computation" by Prof. Jack Snoeyink.