Welcome to CS 137! We’re super excited to have you here this term!
Announcements
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Lectures will be on Zoom. You can click here to get the Zoom link (and other course related private links).
Due Soon
Calendar
Wellness and Inclusion
It is very important to us that you succeed in CS 137. We provide many extra resources to help you. Adam and the TAs hold many office hours, and we have a message board called Ed Discussion.
It is also very important to us that you maintain your mental wellness throughout the course. A few points are not worth losing sleep over. Everyone on the course staff is available to chat, and you can always attend office hours for a non-academic conversation if necessary. You can also visit the counseling center if you find you need help beyond the course staff. If you have a temporary health condition or permanent disability (either mental health or physical health related), you should contact accessibility services if you have not already. Additionally, if there is something we can do to make your experience better, please let us know.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are all core values of this course. All participants in this course must be treated with respect by other members of the community in accordance with the honor code. If you feel unwelcome or unsafe in any way, no matter how minor, we encourage you to talk to Adam or one of the Deans. We view these sorts of honor code violations as completely unacceptable, and we take them very seriously.
Course Staff
Instructor
Teaching Assistants
Handouts
The following is a list of handouts that you might find helpful throughout the course. We’ve categorized them by when they are useful.
Course
Syllabus – an overview of the course and administrative information
Collaboration Policy – the course collaboration policy
Compression
Prefix-Free Codes – an introduction to lossless compression
Huffman Codes – an introduction to huffman codes
More Huffman & LZ77 – more huffman codes, run-length encoding, and lz77
RSA & Big Integers
RSA Introduction – an introduction to RSA
Big Integers – an introduction to the algorithms used on multi-precision integers
Primality Testing – an introduction to Miller-Rabin Primality Testing
RSA Key Generation – a description of the RSA key format that is generated by key generation utilities