Symbols and programming

Spring 2026
Umut Özge (✉️) , İlteriş Bozkurt (TA, ✉️)
⏰ T 2:40-5:30, II03
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📖: reading | 📝: exercise | 🧩: optional/advanced material

Week Content
1 (19/2)

Basic notions in probability theory.

📖 ItP

📝 ItP

📝 For Python warm-up make sure you are comfortable solving Sequence operations.

📝 Check the solution of this for some notes on efficiency in non-mutating dictionary update (🧩).

📝 Flip, Geometric, Unfair coin(🧩).
2 (26/2)

Conditional probability

📖 ItP

📝 ItP

Check the solution for the quiz question.
3 (5/3)

Further discussion on conditional probability and total probability theorem.

ItP

ItP

Quiz solutions can be checked at here and here.
4 (12/3)

You are expected to be fine with all the exercises from previous weeks, unless they involve recursion.

We’ve started the topic of recursion through Peano Arithmetic. I will start over after the Bayram break, but why not start beforehand with,

Peano Arithmetic
5 (19/3)

Bayram holiday.
6 (26/3)

Recursion: Exercises to from the Peano workbook
Probability and recursion: Exercises , , , and from the Basic probability workbook.