COGS 501 -- Algorithmic Structures in Cognition (METU CogSci)

Umut Özge, Ecenur Çağırıcı(TA)

Mondays 🕐 9:40 @Informatics Institute S03

Weekly schedule

Week	Work	Quiz
1	First meeting
2	📆 26/2	q02
3	📆 4/3	q03
4	📆 11/3	q04
5	📆 18/3	q05
6	📆 25/3	q06
7	📆 1/4	q07
8	📆 15/4	q08
9	📆 22/4	q09
10	📆 29/4	-
11	📆 6/5	q11
12	📆 13/5	q12
13	📆 20/5	q13
14	📆 27/5

Syllabus

Prerequisites

None.

Textbooks

• Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd ed.
• How to Design Programs, 2nd ed.
• Rosen (2019). Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, 8th edition, McGraw Hill.

Plan (tentative)

• Chapters 0, 1, 3 of Discrete Math.
• Sections I and II of HTDP

Conduct

• Study the weekly content at home.
• Ask your questions in class.
• Answer our questions in the weekly quiz.

Grading

• 50% Weekly in-class quizzes (10-12 in total, we pick best 8-10)
• 20% Programming assignment(s)
• 30% Final exam (in-class)

Make-ups

Only available by official medical report.

Attendance

It's OK to attend only the quizzes, which tend to be toward the end.