CS172

COMPUTER SYSTEMS II

Credits
7.5
Year
1
Semester
2
Department
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Overview

First Order Logic and proof strategies for reasoning about programs; Basic set and bag definitions, operations, and properties; Using functions to solve problems: to include definitions of function domain, range, image, composition, identity, inverse, abstraction, application, total & partial functions, injections, bijections & surjections; Reasoning using First Order Logic: truth tables, use of conjunction, disjunction, implication, negations, equivalence rules, assertions, ...

Learning Outcomes

  • Solve problems in computer science applying techniques from discrete mathematics
  • Outline the basic structure of standard proof techniques
  • Give examples of standard proof techniques
  • Use functions to formulate and solve problems
  • Relate the ideas of mathematical induction to recursion and recursively defined structures
  • Formulate problems and represent knowledge using first order logic
  • Write simple programs in a declarative language

Related Modules

Prolog

First Order Logic

Set Theory

Relations

Functions