{"id":1318,"date":"2017-02-17T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:10:45","slug":"handouts-and-notes-for-20170217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/2017\/02\/17\/handouts-and-notes-for-20170217\/","title":{"rendered":"Handouts and Notes for 2017\/02\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re continuing our divide-and-conquer notes today&#8230; and recovering from the midterm exam. (Phew!)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-02-08-div-and-conq-qselect.pdf\">notes on divide-and-conquer<\/a> we&#8217;re continuing today plus a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-02-08-div-and-conq-qselect-sample-soln.pdf\">sample solution to the d-and-c notes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There will be a <strong>tutorial quiz the week you return from mid-term break<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Before the end of mid-term break,\u00a0<strong>please read sections 5.3 and 5.4\u00a0plus\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_theorem\">Master Theorem<\/a>\u00a0entry on Wikipedia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll release a <strong>pre-class quiz over mid-term break<\/strong>, but it will be <strong>due on the Tuesday after mid-term break<\/strong> (28 Feb), not at the end of mid-term break. This will include readings on 6.1; so get ahead and read it over break!<\/li>\n<li>We (well, Steve) made a mistake on the readings for the latest pre-class quiz (the one due 9 Feb); so, everyone who submitted it will receive full credit. Oops! But, <strong>please be sure to understand the readings in Chapter 5\/the Master Theorem<\/strong>, which are incredibly important and terribly fun to assess on exams \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re almost done grading the midterm exams, but we&#8217;re working through some administrative issues with the group exams. So, it may be a couple of days before we can return them! We&#8217;ll keep you posted. We will return them to you on GradeScope and then get the grades moved over to Connect afterward.(Note: if your group and individual exam grading differs for a question even though the answers are near-identical, bear in mind that there are (at least) three possibilities. (1) They differed enough for us to feel they deserved different marks. (2) We made a mistake on the one with the higher grade. (3) We made a mistake on the one with the lower grade. Be\u00a0<strong>sure<\/strong> to clearly understand what you wrote, what the solution is, and how it relates to the marking rubric. The rubric will be visible on GradeScope. <strong>Please<\/strong> feel free to discuss where answers were correct and where there were problem (though not explicitly grading\/re-grading) with us in office hours. We won&#8217;t count mid-term break against the timeline for submitting regrade requests!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re continuing our divide-and-conquer notes today&#8230; and recovering from the midterm exam. (Phew!) Here are the notes on divide-and-conquer we&#8217;re continuing today plus a sample solution to the d-and-c notes. There will be a tutorial quiz the week you return from mid-term break. Before the end of mid-term break,\u00a0please read sections 5.3 and 5.4\u00a0plus\u00a0the Master &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/2017\/02\/17\/handouts-and-notes-for-20170217\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handouts and Notes for 2017\/02\/17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[939,318531,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams","category-handouts","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202016w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}