CS 173: Discrete Structures Schedule

A typical weekly schedule in this course will be as follows.

• Tuesday evening: Watch posted video lectures and read posted lecture notes/textbook sections.
• Thursday: Solve worksheet problems assigned for the week during the lecture with the help of course staff. Turn in worked out solutions for worksheets on PrairieLearn by Thursday midnight.
• Saturday night: Turn in homework solutions on PrairieLearn.
• Tuesday (following week): Take 50 minute examlet on previous week's topic during the lecture.

Solutions for lecture worksheets and homeworks will be graded for participation. They are meant to encourage you to solve problems which is the best way to learn the material in this course. The examlet problems will be variants of the problems seen in the lecture worksheet and homeworks.

Video recordings of lecture materials can be accessed from the CS 173 channel on Mediaspace. Graded work will be turned in on PrairieLearn. Zoom links for lecture meetings on Thursday and August 25 (Tuesday) can be found on our Zoom links page.

In the table below, sections and chapters refer to portions of the class textbook Mathematics for Computer Science. Topics covered in the lecture can often also be found in the alternate textbook for the course Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science.