COGS 502

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(🧩).

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(🧩).