ELL781: Software Fundamentals for Computer Technology

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Instructor: Sumeet Agarwal
TAs: Prabhleen Kaur, Palakh Shangle
3 credits (3-0-0)
Pre-requisite: COL106
I Semester 2018–19
M Th 15:30–16:50, LH 623

Evaluation components

• Minors: 30% (Better Minor 20%, Worse Minor 10%) [Paper I; Solutions] [Paper II; Solutions]
  [Re-Minor policy: Only one re-Minor will be conducted towards the end of the semester. The syllabus will be everything covered up until the date of Minor II. Only those with a valid medical certificate covering the date of one of the original Minors will be admitted to the re-Minor.]
• Major: 24% [Paper]
• Assignments: 36% (Demos 3x8=24%, Quiz (to be held alongside Major) 12%) [1] [2] [3] [Quiz]
• Class participation: 10% (Attendance 7%, plus Piazza bonus)

References

1. Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Data Structures and Algorithms (AHU). Addison-Wesley, 1983.
2. Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS). MIT Press, 3rd Edition, 2009.

Planned outline