CSE 20 Survey CK Cheng UC San Diego

Grading Choose the best midterm score Stop mandatory discussion and office hour visits CK: Curve the total score

Exam Keep posting the exercises and previous midterms Exam is harder than previous exams State the coverage, give study guide Exercises are misleading Too hard, too long, too much proofs Need hws and weekly quiz CK: More review. Proofs are important

Lecture Content More examples, actual problems related to exams More applications, leading edge problems Less proofs, less notation/concepts More explanation of proofs and basic concepts Connect ideas and actual applications CK: review of exercises Numbers, Boolean logic, Recursive functions

Lecture Styles Keep answering questions, more open discussion Too fast Slides Keep posting slides More board work More details on definitions iClicker 8+, 4- Highlight the answers on slides Group discussion < 3 minutes Don’t call students to answer Give candies as rewards

Books Short Course Too much inf. Stop using Shaum’s Too much notation Supplementary Essential of Discrete Math by Hunter CK: Exercises and solutions

Discussion Keep doing Connect to lecture and exam Go through a few steps to demonstrate the sequence