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A: Yes, that would be fine - the idea is to not drop below the 3-per-week average overall, cumulatively speaking. This policy is designed to help you avoid "cramming" at the end of the semester, and also to help you retain more of the knowledge by pacing it more evenly.
Most of the citations in the Web pages above do not include only titles and abstracts rather than the full text / PDF of the actual paper, but if you do a Google search for the paper's title (and/or author list), you'll very quickly find the full text / PDF of the actual paper (usually located off of the author's home page).
To do specific topic searches for CS papers, two great online bibliographic search resources are Citeseer and Google Scholar, which data-mine the Web's publication archives and rank the papers by the number of citations (i.e., how many other papers refer to a given paper), so the most relevant papers tend to be listed first (like Google search does). It also provides the PDF/PS to most of the papers there (hundreds of thousands of CS papers in all). I highly recommended both Citeseer and Google Scholar as literature-searching resources!
Keep in mind that the sources listed above contain thousands of very interesting papers (as well as hundreds of thousands of other papers), so you can spend a lifetime on these sites and still not read everything. So please don't get lost or discouraged by this mountain of knowledge.
For a great introduction to algorithms I highly recommend Cormen et al's Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (2009) (especially the "advanced topics" chapters). For your convenience, a searchable PDF version of the textbook is available (but please respect copyright laws). Some of the puns in the Cormen algorithms textbook are explained in here.
A great introduction to computation theory is Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition (published in 2005). (The Third Edition of this book came out more recently). A searchable PDF version of the textbook is available (but please respect copyright laws). For a deeper understanding of a topic please track down the original source papers mentioned in the "Chapter Notes" at the end of each chapter, and also look at more recent papers published in the relevant conferences and journals.
Enjoy! :)
This is really the only fair way to implement "extra credit" so it is exactly that, namely "extra" (i.e., so it does not hurt those who didn't earn it). Also, I have no grades "quotas" - if everyone aces the course, then everyone will receive A's.
So, please view extra-credit as the positive and helpful opportunities that they are intended to be.
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