Thursday September 8, 1994

Assigned Reading: Chapter 1

Handouts (available on-line):

Topics Covered:

Administrative details: office hours, grading policy, project policy and late policy. See handouts.
Areas of ongoing research in Computer Science.
Why is it hard to debug programs? Combinatorial explosion is one reason. To test a program that adds 100 numbers from 1 to 100 on all possible inputs would take more years than there are particles in the universe on a computer that can check a billion cases a second.

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