General Information 2021b


Formalities

Staff

Instructors:
Elhanan Borenstein, Michal Kleinbort
Teaching Assistants:
Asaf Cassel, Shaked Dovrat, Omri Porat, Noam Parzanchevski
HW Checkers:
Nadav Gat, Elad Segal, Yahav Zarfati
Lab Assistant (חונך):
Tal Levi


Office Hours and emails

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Weekday Regular Class Schedule

Group Type Hours Location staff
08 Lecture Sun 16-18
Wed 15-17
Online
Online
Elhanan Borenstein, Michal Kleinbort
11 Lecture Sun 14-16
Wed 13-15
Online
Online
Elhanan Borenstein, Michal Kleinbort
12 Recitation Monday 11-13 Online Asaf Cassel
13 Recitation Monday 11-13 Online Shaked Dovrat
14 Recitation Thursday 10-12 Online Omri Porat
09 Recitation Thursday 12-14 Online Noam Parzanchevski
10 Recitation Thursday 16-18 Online Noam Parzanchevski

Lab Support (temporary hours)

Hours Location staff
Sun 19-20 Online Tal
Mon 10-11 Online Tal
Wed 11-12 Online Tal


Administrativia

Grade

Based on final exam (85%) and homework assignments (15%).
The short questionnaire about the course procedures (see in moodle) will add 2 points to the homework average, provided you will answer all its questions correctly.

Home Assignments

Please carefully read the instructions appearing at the assignments page (HW submission, appeals and checklist).
All HW assignments are mandatory.

Lectures recordings

The lectures given at the 2019-20 Fall Semester are available on the video server of the university, at http://video.tau.ac.il.
However, bear in mind that these lectures are somewhat different from the lectures of our semester. In particular, since then we changed the order of topics, added a few topics, and removed others.
Exam and HW are based on the material taught this semester.


Forum Policy

You are welcome to use the discussion forums of this course (details on the first meeting). Usually there will be a separate thread for each HW question, plus a general forum for questions not relating to the HW.

  • To encourage discussion, we will normally take some time before answering a posted question.
  • Read previous questions and answers before you post. We will ignore questions appearing more than once.
  • A question relevant for the entire course is more likely to get an answer when posted in the forum rather than when sent to us by email. Especially a day before the exam.
  • Keep the forum tidy by using threads wisely:
    • Give your posts informative titles. "A question" or "help" are examples for bad titles. "Assumptions allowed in question 3 section b" or "Clarification on the code we saw in lecture 7" are examples for appropriate titles.
    • Use the "preview" option before you finally post your message. Edit and correct your post if needed.
    • Refrain from posting an unrelated question in an open thread,
    • Refrain from starting a new thread when you have a follow-up question (to someone else's question or to yours)


Reading

Text Books

There is currently no textbook for the course. We may write one :)

Recommended Reading about Python:

1. Python 3 documentation, http://docs.python.org/py3k/, is the official language manual, and a very useful resource.
2. Think Python, by Allen B. Downey, which is available online.
3. A book by John Zelle, “Python programming: an introduction to computer science”, second edition. Fraklin, Beedle & Associates. The second edition refers to Python 3.x, which is the version used in the course.



Some useful system information

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