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Summary of Assignments
Logical Foundations of Science & Computing, Fall 2007

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Schedule of Assignments

This first section is an exact repetition what is on the syllabus. Specific assignments for each week are listed below.

Monday All seminar textbook readings, handout readings and assigned homework for History of Science must be completed and ready for questions, discussion, or presentation. Also all reading and problems for Language, Proof, and Logic (Barwise & Etchemendy) must be completed to the best of your ability and ready for questions, discussion, or presentation.
You must also prepare a draft of a typed, double-spaced one-page maximum length essay presenting your understanding of what you see as the most significant idea covered in the seminar readings for the week. The essay must have a clearly stated thesis with elaboration and support from the texts. The essay is not due until Thursday with your portfolio, but you must be prepared to read your essay draft to the class and elaborate your ideas during seminar discussions on Monday.
Tuesday All readings, review questions, and programs for Python Programming (Zelle) must be completed to the best of your ability and ready for questions, discussion, and presentation.
Thursday A portfolio for the week with your problem solutions, your essay, and your logic results, and your programs is due by 6:00pm under my office door. Include a Status and Self-Assessment with your portfolio each week. On that form, indicate how much of the assigned work you have completed and discuss your understanding of the material covered during the week.

You are expected to keep your weekly portfolios in a well-organized cumulative portfolio for submission at the end of the quarter and for possible periodic inspection during the quarter.

Key: Z = Zelle, BE = Barwise & Etchemendy.
Exercises with * are extra credit.

Week 1 No class Thursday this week (Sukkot).

Wheelwright: Read pp 1-40 (for Tuesday this first week).
No essay draft for week 1.
BE: Read Ch 1 (for Wednesday this first week).
Problems: Ex 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.16, 1.17, 1.21 (on paper only)
Z: Read Ch 1 (for Tuesday this first week)
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: 1,2,4
Programming Exercises: 1-5
No essay for week 1
No Status & Self Assessment due this week
No Portfolio due this week

Week 2

Wheelwright: Read pp 40-175 (for Monday from now on).
Essay draft
BE: Read Ch 2 (for Monday from now on).
Problems: Ex 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, also 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.9, 2.11, 2.17, 2.19, 2.20, 2.22, 2.24, 2.25
Z: Read Ch 2 (for Tuesday from now on).
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 1-5,7,8
Essay
Status & Self Assessment for weeks 1 & 2
Portfolio for weeks 1 & 2

Week 3

Wheelwright: Finish the book.
Critical Reasoning: Read the two handouts and do Exercises 2.1, 2.2
Essay draft
BE: Read Ch 3.
Problems: Ex 3.3, 3.6, 3.9, 3.14, 3.20
Z: Read Ch 3
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 4,5,7,11,12,16
Essay
Status & Self Assessment
Portfolio for week 3

Week 4

Plato: Read to p57.

BE: Read Ch 4.
Problems: Ex 4.2, 4.4, 4.12, 4.17, 4.20, 4.23, 4.27, 4.28, 4.31
Z: Read Ch 4
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 2, 5, 6, 7 10, 15*, 8*, 9*. The starred problems are "extra credit", meaning you should do them if you have easily finished the other problems.
Essay
Status & Self Assessment

Week 5

Plato: Finish the book.
BE: Read Ch 5
Problems: Ex 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12, 5.15, 5.20, 5.27*
Z: Read Ch 5
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12*
Essay
Status & Self Assessment
Midterm on Thursday morning. It's open book and in class

Week 6

Crosby: Finish the book.
BE: Read Ch 6 (Start early, tough chapter)
Problems: Ex 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.12*, 6.17, 6.21, 6.22*, 6.33*
Z: Read Ch 6
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 1,4,7,9,10,11,12 (Choose 4, rest extra credit)
Essay
Status & Self Assessment

Week 7

Kuhn: Read to pp 133.
BE: Read Ch 7
Problems: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.12, 7.13, 7.23, 7.25, 7.27
Z: Read Ch 7
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 3,4,11,18,13*,16*,17* (do any 4 of these)
Essay
Status & Self Assessment

Week 8

Kuhn: Finish the book.
BE: Read Ch 8
Problems: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.17, 8.20, 8.21, 8.31, 8.39
Z: Read Ch 8
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13** (do any 3 of these)
Essay
Status & Self Assessment

Thanksgiving Week. No Classes, nothing due.

Week 9

Einstein: Part 1, Special Theory of Relativity, pp 1-64.

BE: Read Ch 9
Problems: Ex 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.15, 9.16*, 9.17*
Z: Read Ch 9
Review Questions: All
Discussion Questions: All
Programming Exercises: 1, 7, 10, 8, 11* (do one of these as a project or get faculty approval for a project of your choice)
Essay
Status & Self Assessment

Week 10

Einstein: Finish the book for Monday pm seminar.
No Essay.
Monday 10am-12pm & Tuesday 10am-12pm Review and Questions
Project Demos, Tuesday 1-2:30
Final Exam Thursday 10am-12pm
Cumulative portfolios due Thursday at 6:00pm; NO LATER.
Your draft final evaluation, on the official form, is due with your portfolio.

Summary of Assignments Logical Foundations of Science & Computing, Fall 2007

Schedule of Assignments

Summary of Assignments
Logical Foundations of Science & Computing, Fall 2007