Review Topics
Logical Foundations of Science & Computing, Fall 2007
http://grace.evergreen.edu/lfsc/
Here is a partial list of topics to review for the end of the quarter. This
list is not exhaustive, but lists some key topics we covered.
- Any material covered by the first exam
- The Presocratics
- Plato's theory of knowledge
- Qualitative vs Quantitative knowledge
- Validity, soundness of arguments
- Truth tables and their uses
- Soundness and Completeness for Propositional Logic (no quantifiers).
- Lorentz Transformations - what is their purpose, what do they do?
- Relativity of Simultaneity
- Special relativity workshop
- The structure of Einstein's argument in Part I of Relativity
- Kuhn questions handed out for seminar
- Fitch proofs
- Informal proofs and proof techniques (modus ponens, proof by cases, etc).
- Reading an interpreting logical statements with quantifiers
- Reading Python programs and understanding what they do
- Structure charts for Python programs
- Top down design, bottom up implementation, prototyping and spiral
development.
- Objects (Ch 5 graphical objects)
- Python functions
- Decisions and loops in Python
- Fallacies