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AY2024/25 Semester 1
Course Information - Schedules

Calendar:

For a complete academic calendar, see NUS academic calendar | Calendar (AY2024/25).

        August 2024                         September 2024
     Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
                      1   2   3       4:  1   2   3   4   5   6   7
  0:  4   5   6   7   8   9  10       5:  8   9  10  11  12  13  14
  1: 11  12  13  14  15  16  17       6: 15  16  17  18  19  20  21
  2: 18  19  20  21  22  23  24      RC: 22  23  24  25  26  27  28
  3: 25  26  27  28  29  30  31       7: 29  30  
  
        October 2024                        November 2024
     Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
  7:          1   2   3   4   5      11:                      1   2
  8:  6   7   8   9  10  11  12      12:  3   4   5   6   7   8   9
  9: 13  14  15  16  17  18  19      13: 10  11  12  13  14  15  16
 10: 20  21  22  23  24  25  26      RD: 17  18  19  20  21  22  23
 11: 27  28  29  30  31              E1: 24  25  26  27  28  29  30 
Recess week: 21 - 29 Sep 2024
Public holidays: 9 Aug (National Day), 31 Oct (Deepavali), 1 Nov (NUS Well-being Day).
CS1231S Exam: ??
(See Examination Directory)

SoC Course Schedule:

See Course Schedule.

Venues:

See SoC Venues; location capacity.

Lecture Plan:

This is a summary. For more details, please go to the Lectures page which includes the slides.

Note that the lecture plan is subject to changes.

Week Date Lecture Topics CA
1 12/8 - 16/8 Introduction
Lecture 1: Speaking Mathematically
Lecture 2: The Logic of Compound Statements
 
2 19/8 - 23/8 Lecture 2: The Logic of Compound Statements (cont'd)
Lecture 3: The Logic of Quantified Statements
 
3 26/8 - 30/8 Lecture 3: The Logic of Quantified Statements (cont'd)
Lecture 4: Methods of Proofs
Tutorial #1
4 2/9 - 6/9 Sets Tutorial #2
5 9/9 - 13/9 Relations and Equivalence Relations Tutorial #3
6 16/9 - 20/9 Partial Orders
Functions
Tutorial #4
Assignment #1 (on Tut1-3) due: 16 Sep, Monday, 1pm
- 21/9 - 29/9 (Recess)
7 30/9 - 4/10 Functions (cont'd)
Mathematical Induction and Recursion
Tutorial #5
8 Mid-term test (on tutorials 1-5)
(See Important Events below.)
8 7/10 - 11/10 Mathematical Induction and Recursion (contd.)
Cardinality
Tutorial #6
9 14/10 - 18/10 Counting and Probability I Tutorial #7
10 21/10 - 25/10 Counting and Probability II Tutorial #8
11 28/10 - 1/11 Graphs Tutorial #9
12 4/11 - 8/11 Trees Tutorial #10
Assignment #2 (on Tut6-9) due: 4 Nov, Monday, 1pm
13 11/11 - 15/11 Filler (revision) Tutorial #11

Lecture Schedule:

Thursday 12-2pm and Friday 3-4pm.
Group L1 at LT11 for Thursday and UT-AUD2 for Friday; group L2 online.

Tutorial Schedule:

Tutorials start in week 3.

Important Events:

Please mark down these important dates. They are open-book assessments.
The midterm test and exam will be conducted physically.
Please note that the date for the mid-term test is fixed, and you should not miss it. Please alert me (tantc @ comp.nus.edu.sg) by 23 January if it clashes with your other course's test, providing me with the information such as the course code and timing of the other test.

Event Venue Date Time
Mid-term Test
(See Term Tests page for details.)
TBU 9 Oct, Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm
Exam
(See RO's Exam Directory)
(See also Exams page for more info.)
TBU TBU TBU

Last updated: 19 June 2024