Tarrant County College – Southeast Campus

Prefreshman Engineering  Program – Summer 2008

Logic  – Computer

Syllabus

Instructor: James Dang, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Teaching Assistant: TBA

Course Description: Students will be introduced logic computer.  This will be done through a combination of lectures and projects.

Assignments:     Assignments will be assigned every day and is due the following.  Assignments will be collected by TAs as or instructor the end of class.

Projects:              Groups will work on a major project for presentation during the program.  There will be a team duties assigned to group members.

Grading Scheme:

Assignments      25%
Project                 25%
Midterm Exam  15%
Participation       10%
Final Exam           25%

Grading Scale:

90 – 100                A
80 – 89                  B
70 – 79                  C
60 – 69                  D
<59                         F

Scolastic Dishonesty:

Cheating will not be tolerated and is grounds for dismissal from the program.

Course Outline

Weekly                Chapters              Assignments                                      Topics

PREP Orientation
Syllabus

Week 1                 Chapter 1            Assignment #1                  Statements and Standard Forms
(6/9-6/12)                                                                                           Definition of Statement
                                                                                                                Negation
                                                                                                                Conjunction
                                                                                                                Disjunction
                                                                                                                Use of Parentheses
                                                                                                                Conditional Statement                                                                                                                                                                                                  Biconditional Statement

Week 2                 Chapter 1            Assignments #2                 Logical Equivalence
(6/16-6/19)         (continue)                                                           Standard forms of compound statements
                                                                                                                Using truth tables
                                                                                                                Tautologies and contradictions
                                                                                                                Implication
                                                                                                                Theorems of logic
                                                                                                               

Week 3                 Chapter 1            Assignment #3                  Arguments
(6/23-6/26)         (continue)                                                           Conjunction of premises and conclusions
                                                                                                                Qualifiers and quantified statements
                                                                                                                Midterm Exam

Week 4                 Chapter 2            Assignment #4                  Elementary set Theory
(6/30-7/3)

Week 5                 Chapter 3            Assignment #5                  Boolean Algebra
(7/7-7/10)

Week 6                 Chapter 4            Assignment #6                  Switching Networks
(7/14-7/17)

Week 7                                                                                                 Review
(7/21-7/24)                                                                                         Final Exam