Week 3:

The main goals for Week 3 are to:

Show how simple models of computing can result in complex behavior.
Begin building a bridge from theoretical models of computing (like straightline programs and boolean circuits) to practical implementations of computing (like Python and integrated circuits).
Explore the powers and limitations of a model of computing, including being able to understand the details of how to use that model, and why it is defined in the way chosen.

Schedule

Day	"Tuesday" Cohort	"Wednesday" Cohort	"Thursday" Cohort	"Friday" Cohort	"Sunday" Cohort	"Monday" Cohort
Wed 9 Sep	Preparation	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)
Thu 10 Sep	Preparation	Preparation	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)
Fri 11 Sep	September 11 and Distributed Hashing (links from Week 2)
Fri 11 Sep	Preparation	Preparation	Preparation	(Week 2)	(Week 2)	(Week 2)
Sat/Sun 12/13 Sep	Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Preparation	Preparation	(Week 2)	(Week 2)
Mon 14 Sep	Preparation	Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Preparation	Preparation	(Week 2)
Tue 15 Sep	Assessed Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Preparation	Preparation
Wed 16 Sep	Write-up Due	Assessed Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Preparation
Thu 17 Sep	Week 4	Write-up Due	Assessed Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Cohort Meeting	Preparation
Fri 18 Sep	Week 4	Week 4	Write-up Due	Assessed Cohort Meeting	Preparation	Cohort Meeting
Sat/Sun 19/20 Sep	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Write-up Due	Assessed Cohort Meeting	Preparation
Mon 21 Sep	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Write-up Due	Assessed Cohort Meeting
Tue 22 Sep	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Week 4	Write-up Due

Cohort Problems

These are the problems you should discuss in your Cohort Meeting, and everyone in your cohort should be prepared to present and discuss solutions to at the Assessed Cohort Meeting:

Cohort Problems for Week 3 [PDF]
Programming Problems for Week 3 [adders.py]

The problems are posted here and we think its a good idea to look at them early, but you’re not expected to be able to solve them until after doing the readings and watching the videos below.

After the Assessed Cohort Meeting, your Cohort Leader will select one problem that your cohort needs to write-up and submit. The write-up is due by 11:59pm on the day after your assessed cohort meeting (see the schedule above).

The PS3 Template provides directions and a template for producing the PDF file you will submit as your write-up.

Download the Problem Set 3 Template [zip].

Reading

Material in this week’s lectures parallels with:

Ch. 3, Defining Computation of the TOC textbook. We discussed this last week as well, we’re looking at this chapter in more detail this week
Ch. 4, Syntactic sugar and computing every function from the TOC textbook. In particular, we cover sections 4.1 through 4.3.

Videos

You can play all the videos using this playlist, but don’t forget to take breaks:Week 3 Playlist

These videos are edited from these cs3102 classes (we don't generally recommend watching the unedited versions, but they are available if you want to)::