Course Syllabus

Instructor:  Mordecai Golin   golin@cse.ust.hk

Office hours: (in Room 3559) by email appointment.

TAs:

Time and Venues:

• Lectures:
  Monday & Wednesday  10:30  - 11:50AM, Room 2503  New Room!
• Tutorial:
  Friday  11-11:50AM,   Room 4619 

Textbook:

• Algorithms    
  • Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani. McGraw Hill.

Other Reference Books:

• Introduction to Algorithms (3rd ed) 
  •  Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and  Stein. MIT Press
  •  E-version available from the university library

• Programming Pearls (2nd ed) 
  •   Bentley. Addison Wesley

• Algorithm Design 
  • Kleinberg and Tardos. Addison Wesley

• Problems on Algorithms  (2nd ed)
  • Ian Parberry and William Gasarch (free book)

Class Information:

• Click  "Pages" on the left to see a list of all upper-level Canvas pages for this course.
  This includes Course Outcomes  + Assessment Rubrics.  
  Many of those pages are also accessible directly via the links at the top of this page.

Assignment Information:

• There will be 4 Assignments handed out during the semester as well as various extra credit problems.  See the Assignment Page for links to the individual assignments and extra credits.
• The assignments will, in total, be worth 30% of the final grade.  The Midterm will also be worth 30% and the Final Exam will be worth 40%.

Exam Scheduling (Tentative):  

Intellectual Honesty & Plagiarism:

• Students are expected to follow the HKUST Academic Honor Code
• All work submitted for grading, e.g., assignments, must be your own
• You are permitted to discuss problems with other students but you must write-up all solutions by yourself, in your own words.
• If you got the main idea for a solution from another student or a web-site you must acknowledge that source in your submission.
• Submission of non-acknowledged material will be considered as plagiarism and dealt with under the university policy for cheating.