Timetable
The course has various learning activities, which are coordinated with each other and the assessment. The timetables are a bit different for Semester 1 and Semester 2:
Weekly activities
We recommend that each week you have a pattern of:
- Doing the reading listed before the lectures. Most of the reading is from the FDS lecture notes:
Document
FDS-lecture-notes-2024-04-18.pdf
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- Attend the lectures, which include exercises, discussion, Q&A, demos or feedback on exercises. The lectures are delivered by Kobi Gal (KG), David Sterratt (DS) and Michael Gutmann (MG).
- Test yourself with the comprehension questions in Learn Ultra afterwards.
- Do the lab notebook - in Weeks 1 to 7 there will be lab sessions in Appleton Tower with demonstrators; after then the labs are self-study
- Attend the workshops - preparation the week before is ideal, but if you've not managed to prepare, you should get something from the workshops. Two of the workshops are designed to familiarise you with the coursework released shortly after, including how we mark it.
Coursework
There are 3 courseworks and one class test; you can see the schedule in Learn Ultra or import the data into your calendar and use the coursework calendar file https://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/calendar/inf2-fds.ics to get all the coursework events into your Outlook or Google calendar.