Discrete Structures
CSCI246, Fall 2021
The most updated information for this course is on Moodle.

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Zyante

Zyante publishes the online book which we will be using for this course. It is called a zyBook and is interactive web-native content. Rather than purchasing a text, you are purchasing access to the the interactive content.

To purchase access to the zyBook for this coure:

1. Sign up or create an account at learn.zybooks.com.
2. Enter zyBook code: MTECHCSCI246SchahczenskiFall2020
3. Subscribe using any credit card. A subscription is $58 and will last until Dec. 25, 2020.

A comparison of software such as Zyante and other online textbooks is given here "Effectiveness of Online Textbooks vs. Interactive Web-Native Content", by Alex Edgcomb & Frank Vahid, American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE, June 2014, Paper ID #10004.

Articles

• Guildelines in writing proofs
• Common mistakes in discrete structures
• Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes
• Good explanation of continuous versus discrete.
• Wikipedia definition of Discrete Mathematics, which is synonomous with Discrete Structures

Helpful Books

• In the CS Department office there is an answer book for Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 6th edition, by Kenneth Rosen which you can borrow. Please don't take this answer book out of the Museum lab.
• Another text on discrete strcutres with clear explanations and many sample problems is Discrete Mathematics by Kenneth Bogart

Tables

• Logical Equivalences
• Logical Inferences
• Identities for Sets and Boolean Algebra