Daily Assignments (20% of final grade)

  • Assignment Description: There will be approximately 11 Daily Assignments. They will typically be assigned after each lecture, unless an exam is being released instead. Daily Assignments will generally be short, consisting of a few exercises related to the days topics. In general, the problems will be computational in nature. You will submit a write-up of your solutions to the exercises via gradescope. Your write-up may be handwritten, but I encourage you to write it using $\LaTeX$. The deadline to submit your write-up is always 11:59PM the next day.
  • Purpose: We will encounter new definitions, theorems, and techniques every day. The best way to internalize all of this new information is to practice, and in such a fast-paced course it is imperative to practice daily. Daily Assignments will give you an opportunity to practice what you learned in the lecture that day. The assignments are low-stakes, in the sense that your grade is based on effort and participation, see below.
  • Basis for Evaluation: Daily assignments are evaluated on a Pass/No Pass basis. For each daily assignment, you will either receive 1 point (a Pass) or 0 points (a No Pass). You will receive 1 point if you:
    • submit your assignment on time; and
    • follow the submission guidelines (see Submitting Assignments in the syllabus); and
    • demonstrate a good faith effort to complete all assigned exercises correctly.
    If your submission does not meet all of the above criteria, you will receive 0 points. Your lowest 2 scores will be dropped.

Assignments, Templates, & Due Dates

    The assignments and due dates will be posted in the table below. Additionally, I will provide the .tex files in case you want to write your solutions using $\LaTeX$.
Daily Assignment .tex .pdf Overleaf Release Date Due Date Selected solutions
1 daily1.tex daily1.pdf daily1 Overleaf 7/31 8/1 daily1_sol.pdf
2 daily2.tex daily2.pdf daily2 Overleaf 8/2 8/3 daily2_sol.pdf
3 daily3.tex daily3.pdf daily3 Overleaf 8/4 8/6 daily3_sol.pdf
4 daily4.tex daily4.pdf daily4 Overleaf 8/7 8/8 daily4_sol.pdf
5 daily5.tex daily5.pdf daily5 Overleaf 8/9 8/10 daily5_sol.pdf
6 daily6.tex daily6.pdf daily6 Overleaf 8/11 8/13 daily6_sol.pdf
7 daily7.tex daily7.pdf daily7 Overleaf 8/14 8/15 daily7_sol.pdf
8 daily8.tex daily8.pdf daily8 Overleaf 8/16 8/20 daily8_sol.pdf
9 daily9.tex daily9.pdf daily9 Overleaf 8/21 8/22 daily9_sol.pdf
10 daily10.tex daily10.pdf daily10 Overleaf 8/23 8/24 daily10_sol.pdf
11 daily11.tex daily11.pdf daily11 Overleaf 8/25 8/27 daily11_sol.pdf
12 daily12.tex daily12.pdf daily12 Overleaf 8/28 8/29