תקציר יחידת-הוראה
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- The required materials for the exam are covered by chapter 1-11. Chapters 12 and 13 are relevant for the more advanced ELSC courses, but they are not included in the required materials for the exam.
- For each chapter we provide the required reading, additional helpful resources (subchapters and videos), relevant possible exercises at the end of the chapter and a short list of additional exercises from previous years (PDF).
- Solving problems is vital for understanding the material, and for achieving the proficiency required for success in the exam. We provide for each chapter a pdf file with problems that we very strongly advise to solve on your own. However, for successful learning, it is important to solve additional problems. Each chapter includes an extensive list of problems at its end, and we highly recommend to solve also problems from this list (but there is no need to solve all of them - this will typically be too much).
In the reading list that accompanies each topic, we provide some additional details: typically, we mention problems that should be skipped, and highlight problems that include important proofs.
It is also highly recommended to view solutions to problems, after you solve them yourself, and verify that you understand the proofs (some concepts are further clarified within the exercises and solutions) or the solutions. - When reading a chapter, a possible practice is to follow each section and its corresponding exercises, then proceeding to the next section and so forth. Finally, proceed to the pdf ('Exercise for chapter').
- Note that you will not be required to prove theorems in the exam, but theorems (and proofs) provided in the main text are important for your understanding. Reading and understanding them is important also for the exam. For example, you might be asked to determine whether an argument is true/false and provide an explanation. The same holds for theorems whose proof is developed in problems, if we (or the reading text) mention explicitly that this is an important problem.
- The exam bank and additional practice exercises are available at the end of the course (as a last chapter).
- For those who may wish to learn from the lectures that
were given at ELSC in the year 2020-2021, we also provide access to these lecture recordings and lecture notes, which cover similar materials. We emphasize, however, that the recommended reading list is sufficient in
order to cover the topics of the exams.
- The required materials for the exam are covered by chapter 1-11. Chapters 12 and 13 are relevant for the more advanced ELSC courses, but they are not included in the required materials for the exam.