This year, the course will be delivered with a mix of online and in-person delivery. Lectures will be delivered live with a limited in-person audience and live-streaming via
Lecture Recordings. Recordings of lectures will be available within an hour or so. As of week 1, we believe that we can run all tutorials in person. Drop-in labs are in-person.
The course keeps up a steady and fairly demanding pace. It is important to manage your schedule in an effective way for achieving all the learning outcomes of the course. Please read the information below and plan carefully your weeks accordingly.
Each week, you have to complete the following activities:
- Attend four online lectures (FP on Mon,Tue, CL on Thu,Fri) and review the associated slides (see the page Course Materials).
- Attempt two quizzes -- one for each strand of the course; FP is due 16.00 on Wednesdays, and CL is due 16.00 on Saturdays (see the page Course Materials).
- Read the required and recommended chapters from the textbooks (see the Library Resources page and the Course Materials page).
- Attend one in-person tutorial session (see details in the Tutorials page). These are 90-minute tutorials scheduled on Thursdays and Fridays.
- Before attending the tutorials, you must prepare: you have to solve and submit two tutorial assignments, one for each strand of the course. The deadlines for submission are 16:00 on Tuesdays.
There are also weekly optional activities that we encourage you to take:
- Study the weekly topic in Mathematics for Computing (see the page Course Materials).
- Attend demonstrations/drop-in lab sessions where you can ask for help from tutors and demonstrators, especially with your practical work. These sessions run on Mon,Tue,Wed, some at 16:10 and some at 17:10.
Each week, the Directed Learning and Independent Learning activities (i.e. the guided self-study activities, such as preparing your tutorial assignments, doing the required reading, or attending the drop-in labs) should take you about 10 hours in total.
