This course takes students from the basic level given by the 1st year course INF311 to an intermediate level, more or less like students out of the INF321 course. This course is offered to students having taken INF311 and is a prerequisite for the more advanced INF431 course.
Courses take place on 9 consecutive fridays from 26th august to 21st october. Lectures are in Amphitheatre Arago from 10:30 to 12:00, and TDs are SI31, SI32, SI33, SI34, from 13:30 to 15:30 (groups 1-4) and from 15:45 to 17:45 (groups 5-7). If you're new to Ecole Polytechnique and don't know your way around the place yet, find every lecture hall and class here.
The TD on 16/9 will be marked ("pâle machine"). It will focus on material from lecture 1 to lecture 4 inclusive (this means you better come to the lectures, specially on 16/9, since you might be tested on it in the afternoon). Examples of past tests and exams can be found in the archives.
This is the first year I'm giving this course, and since I think good lecture notes come out of didactical experience, I shall write them up during this and the next few years. For the time being, please refer to last year's polycopié.
Notwithstanding, I am actually writing some lecture notes, which for the moment are nothing but introductory material. I shall not assume you read this, but I encourage you to, and if you do please let me have your feedback.
I mainly base my notes and slides on the following books.
One of the TDs will be evaluated (let T be the mark gained in this test), and there will be an exam ("contrôle classant") at the end of the course (let E be the mark gained in this test). The total mark will be given by