Course Syllabus

Fall  2020  Lecture-Notes   Tutorials   Exam-Info   Course Policies   Announcements

Instructor:  Mordecai Golin   golin@cse.ust.hk

Office hours: (in Room 3559) by email appointment

TAs:

• GAN, Jinxiang  jganad@cse.ust.hk
• JIN, Zhihua      zjinak@cse.ust.hk

Time and Venues:

• Lectures:
  Tuesday &  Thursday  3  -  4:20 PM,  via  Zoom
• Tutorial:
  Thursday   6 - 6:50PM,   via Zoom

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)
• Algorithms
  • Jeff Erikson (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 Descriptions/Outcomes/Rubrics.  
  Many of those pages are also accessible directly via the links at the top of this page.

Assignment Information:

• There will be 6-7  Assignments distributed during the semester as well as various extra credit problems.  See the Assignments Page for links to the individual assignments and extra credits.
• The assignments will, in total, be worth  60%  of the final grade.   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.