If you need guidance
relating to your studies and identifying needs for additional support, please
contact your personal tutor. The personal tutor may be also able to help you if
you have other problems that may be relevant to your programme of study. The
School or College also provide advice sessions on study skills, such as
planning the workload, writing, reading and exam preparation; free workshops on
critical writing, essay writing, examination essays, examination revision,
learning strategies and memory techniques; help with the English language, help
with coursework and other written assignments, subject specific preparation and
study skills – see
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/student-services/learning-development
Lastly, the School’s
Learning Development Tutors are there to support you in your studies and offer
help and advice on a wide range of study skills –
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/business/current-students/learning-co-ordinators .
Assessment is based on an
in class test (20%) held on the 18th February (week 6) and the
summer 2020 examination (80%). Examples of previous in class tests and previous
examination papers are given below.
Lecture slides and
worksheets will be posted on this page during the spring term.
Preliminaries and pdf
Slides for week 1 (14.1.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 2 (21.1.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 3 (28.1.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 4 (4.2.20): 1st half and pdf
Mock in class test and summary answers
Slides for week 5 (11.2.20): 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 6 (18.2.20): 2nd half and pdf
In class test and summary answers
Slides for week 7 (25.2.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 8 (3.3.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 9 (10.3.20): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 10 (17.3.20): 2nd half and pdf
Slides for week 11 (24.3.20): 1st half and pdf
Maths Practice with Eva
14.00 to 17.00, Saturday 1st February 2020
14.00 to 17.00, Saturday 8th February 2020
Maths Video Tutorials
BIN and Boolean videos (library)
http://bbk.libguides.com/computerscience/mathstutorials
BIN and Boolean videos (Birkbeck You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Fy-5oxIlb6cG15wxnhRdAmdskil_3-7
Elementary arithmetic http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~roger/arith.html
Integers and fractions http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numtypes.htm
Binary arithmetic http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numbbase.htm
More binary arithmetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system
Two’s complement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement
Algorithms http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/bshelburne/Comp150/Algorithms.htm
2017, 2018 and 2019
Summer Examinations
The summer 2018 examination is exceptional in that it contains only 9 questions. The summer 2017 examination and the summer 2019 examination contain the usual 10 questions.
2017 summary answers to summer examination
2018 summary
answers to summer examination
2019 summary
answers to summer examination
Revision
The following material will be discussed in the Moodle Collaborate Sessions on 12.5.20.
Guidance for the summer examination and pdf version
Discussion of the
summer 2017 examination and pdf
version