Course Syllabus

Course Name: Discrete Structures in CS  Course Number: CS225_400

Term Offered: All Terms 

Credits: 4 

Instructor name: Samina Ehsan

This is a course on discrete mathematics as used in Computer Science. It’s only a one-term course, so there are a lot of topics that it doesn’t cover or doesn’t cover in much depth. But the hope is that this will help you to develop mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills that you will need in future. 

The subjects covered in this course include formal approach to the logic of Computer Science, including set theory, methods of proof, sequences, recurrence relations, combinatorics and graph theory. 

Contact Information

 Instructor -

The instructor's office hours are on Tuesdays from 18:00 -20:00 PST (by appointment)  and Sundays 9:00 -11:00 PST (by appointment)  via (Google chat/email/skype/etc.)

Please create a private post on Piazza or send her an email to set an appointment at least 12 hours before you need help. 

• Samina Ehsan  ehsans@onid.oregonstate.edu 

Teaching Assistants -

Please create a private post on Piazza or send a personal email to set an appointment at least 12 hours before you need help. 

• Anh Pham phaman@oregonstate.edu 
•  Partha Sarathi Paul paulp@oregonstate.edu  
• Han-Ting Lin  linha@oregonstate.edu 
• Siddarth Mahendra mahendrs@oregonstate.edu 
• Thuan Nguyen nguyeth9@oregonstate.edu 
•  Yi-Chieh Wang wangyic@oregonstate.edu 

Communication Policy

• Piazza is the best way to reach the instructor and TAs for any course related query. We can refer back to our previous discussions here and also as it will be visible to the entire class. So, the other students will be able to get benefit from it.  Not all posts require a reply from the instructor/TA and often it is better to have discussion in detail with your peers. 
• Sending email ehsans@onid.oregonstate.edu  is the preferred way to only for matters of a personal nature related to the course (Please include the prefix CS-225_400_S18 in the subject). If needed, we can use Skype or Google Hangout for discussion. Please resend the email if the instructor does not respond within 24 hours. 
• We will have constant TA support, so it should be possible to get office hour help at any time. You should create a private post on Piazza or email the TA personally in advance to set an office hour appointment. 
• We will maintain virtual office hours using the class account osucs225@gmail.com .

Course Guidelines / Syllabus / Weekly Schedule 

The detailed guidelines for the course is as below -

CS-225_400_Course_Guidelines_Spring2018_Updated.pdf

The weekly schedule (Including the syllabus)  for the course is as followed  -

CS225_Abbreviated Weekly Schedule_Spring2018.pdf