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About the Course

Mathematical thinking is crucial in all areas of computer science: algorithms, bioinformatics, computer graphics, data science, machine learning, etc. In this course, we will learn the most important tools used in discrete mathematics: induction, recursion, logic, invariants, examples, optimality. We will use these tools to answer typical programming questions like: How can we be certain a solution exists? Am I sure my program computes the optimal answer? Do each of these objects meet the given requirements? In the online course, we use a try-this-before-we-explain-everything approach: you will be solving many interactive (and mobile friendly) puzzles that were carefully designed to allow you to invent many of the important ideas and concepts yourself. Prerequisites: 1. We assume only basic math (e.g., we expect you to know what is a square or how to add fractions), common sense and curiosity. 2. Basic programming knowledge is necessary as some quizzes require programming in Python....

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Mar 25, 2019

The teachers are informative and good. They explain the topic in a way that we can easily understand. The slides provide all the information that is needed. The external tools are fun and informative.

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Feb 27, 2021

It is a great course! teachers explain everything with care. While providing lectures there are some popup ques that verify whether you understood that lecture or not. Overall, a great experience.

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By Riley K

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Jun 15, 2021

Link for quiz tool did not work and wasn't fixed after a month. The order of the units seemed like it made little sense in my opinion. Some questions were worded poorly or crucial information was left out or vague

By MUJEEB R

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Aug 24, 2023

I'm giving this one-star rating just because of no videos in weeks 4 and 5. Overall, the course is good but still need improvement in my English accent as it was hard for me to get it being an Asian.

By rajinder s s

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Dec 13, 2020

I did not get much from the course. while the material is interesting but somehow some instructors lack the ability to explain things very clearly.

By Edwin S

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Jan 29, 2024

For many lessons the video lectures are missing. They have done the best they could with creating the puzzles. But all together very low quality.

By kaushik

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Jun 10, 2020

some of the topics were fucking bad the explanations could have been a way more clearer felt bad

By Andrea Z

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Apr 26, 2020

good content, but I have to say that is very and I mean very hard to understand the teachers

By William L H

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Aug 24, 2020

I'm not sure which is more bizarre, the topics being discussed or the quizzes.

By Chui H C

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Jun 21, 2021

solutions are contradictory. i am trying to unenroll, please help me, thanks

By ID

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Mar 12, 2022

Too many errors and incongruencies. Often very unintelligible.

By RAYADURGAM K K

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May 17, 2020

By far the worst Coursera course, I've taken

By Michael J M

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Aug 28, 2021

unable to unenroll. extremely frustrating.

By Vikram R V

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Jan 25, 2022

some of problems can not solved

By Yiqing L

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Feb 26, 2020

quiz is too hard!!

By Lukas C

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Dec 7, 2023

Isn't good

By forat s

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Nov 26, 2020

Very poor