Schedule

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:

• Semester 1 lecture, workshop and lab times
• Semester 2, lecture, workshop and lab times

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: 

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  FDS-lecture-notes-2025-01-15.pdf
• Attending 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 Borislav (Bobby) Ikonomov (BI).
• Testing yourself with the comprehension questions in Learn afterwards.
• Doing the lab notebook - in S1 Weeks 1 and 2 there will be lab sessions in Appleton Tower with demonstrators, to get you started. After then, the labs are self-study, but there will be support from lab demonstrators in InfBase.
• Attending the workshops - preparation the week before is ideal, but if you've not managed to prepare, you should get something from the workshops. All the workshops are designed to help you learn what we'll be assessing in the coursework and exam.

Coursework

There is 1 coursework. You can see the schedule in the "Coursework Planner" in Learn 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.

Office hours

On Wednesdays with lectures, the office hour will be at 12 noon, after the lecture in the Appleton Tower Cafe.

On Wednesdays without lectures, the office hour will be at 11:10; meet outside LT5 in Appleton Tower.

Schedule