CS1800 Admin#
Instructor and TAs#
Meetings#
TAs will might leave the OH after 1 hour, if noone else is there, and no student expressed interest to come in late.
Logistics#
CS1800-ACC VS Regular Section#
Accelerated section requires a placement math test, or provable math background, or strong reference.
It spends about 1/2-2/3 of time covering all 1800 material, and 1/3-1/2 doing advanced math.
It is a college level math course, the same difficulty as you would expect in a math major freshmen intro course.
A lot of proofs. Students are expected to follow these in class, and to be more rigorous on their proofs than regular 1800.
More complex reasoning. An idea in regular 1800 takes one or two steps, but most advanced problems in Acc section can take up to five steps.
About 4 “project problems” assigned are difficult, typically unreachable for regular students. But they are not to be solved alone (as a HW), rather to be discussed over 2-3 weeks each before submission. Also they require simple programming in Python or Matlab
CS1800 Grading Schema#
grade_score = HW*0.40 + REC*0.10 + MIDTERM*0.25 + FINAL *0.25
about 10-11 HWs with weekly deadlines
weekly 65 min recitation graded as one of “full” / “half” / “missing”
2 exams (midterm, final) in class, on paper, about 3 hours each
up to -30% for missing attendance
up to +10% for being active (piazza, OH, optional projects)
no credit for solving optional/EC difficult problems, but these are useful for future collaboration, reference letters etc.
Academics#
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