(Latest Revision -- August 7, 2015)
(2015/06/22: Initial version)

Course Description
for Discrete Structures: MATH 2300

TERM: Fall 2015

CLASS CODES:

41226 MATH 2300, Section 001,
Discrete Structures Lec 3.0 MW 2:00-3:15 P-101


INSTRUCTOR: John Sarraillé, Professor of Computer Science

OFFICE: P-286, Professional Schools Building (aka: Demergasso-Bava Hall), Cal State Stanislaus

OFFICE HOURS: (The first day of scheduled office hours is Thursday, August 27, 2015, and the last is Thursday, December 10, 2015.)

E-MAIL: john@ishi.csustan.edu

HOMEPAGE: http://www.cs.csustan.edu/~john/js.html

PREREQUISITES:

You have to be adequately prepared to take the course. Check with me if you have not passed, with a grade of C- or better, COURSE COVERAGE & OBJECTIVES:

Familiarization with discrete mathematical structures and their application in computer science: variables, sets, relations, functions, logic, mathematical proof, sequences, induction, recurrence relations, Boolean algebra, equivalence relations.

REQUIRED TEXT:

NETWORK AVAILABILITY OF COURSE MATERIALS:

Course documents, assignments, supplements, and so on will be available in the class web space:

http://www.cs.csustan.edu/~john/Classes/Math2300/

BASIC SCHEDULE INFO:

Class meets MW from 14:00 to 15:15.

I expect you to attend all classes and to keep current with the readings, lectures, and exercises.

TIME COMMITMENT:

For each hour of in-class time, expect you will have to do about two to three additional hours of work for this class. So, in a week with 2.5 hours of in-class time, you might spend up to about 7.5 hours on additional work. If you don't have that much time available, you should take fewer units.

TESTS & GRADING:
Scoring Exception: A student who gets a failing average on tests (quizzes + final) gets a failing course grade, no matter what the homework scores are. I will use the 25-50-25 weights indicated above if the student has a passing test average.

HOMEWORK: Academic Honesty: The work you do for this course must be exclusively your own work, except where I give specific instructions otherwise. If you violate that rule, you are attacking the integrity and the core values of our educational system. If you are caught cheating, expect to be dealt with to the full extent allowed under University policy.