CS2135 Programming Language Concepts
Lecture and Reading Schedule

Note: The "Extra Exercises" column provides additional practice exercises that you can try. These will not be graded, and are separate from the homework assignments. You are always welcome to bring questions on these practice problems to office hours. We strongly recommend that you try some of these exercises as you will need to be comfortable programming in Scheme by the third week of the course!

Exam Dates

Midterm Exam: Monday, Sept 22, in class
Final Exam: Thursday, Oct 16, in class

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
8/28	Introduction to Scheme	HTDP Chapter 2 HTDP Chapter 3	HTDP Section 2.2 Exercises HTDP Section 2.3 Exercises HTDP Section 3.3 Exercises
8/29	Symbols and Conditionals	HTDP Chapter 4 HTDP Chapter 5	HTDP Section 4.3 Exercises HTDP Section 4.4 Exercises HTDP Section 5.1 Exercises	Homework 0
9/1	Labor Day -- no class
9/2	Structures	HTDP Chapter 6 HTDP Chapter 7	HTDP Section 6.3 Exercises HTDP Section 6.4 Exercises HTDP Section 6.7 Exercises HTDP Section 7.2 Exercises		Notes on structs
9/4	Nested Structures, Intro to Lists	HTDP Section 9.1 HTDP Section 9.2	HTDP Section 9.1 Exercises HTDP Section 9.2 Exercises	Homework 1	Programming Inside Out
9/5	Lists and The Design Recipe	HTDP Chapter 9 HTDP Chapter 10	HTDP Section 9.5 Exercises HTDP Section 10.1 Exercises		Notes on design process [ppt] Notes on design process [pdf] Design Recipe Worksheet [pdf]
9/8	Lists of structures and sorting	HTDP Section 10.2	HTDP Section 10.2 Exercises		Using Templates Effectively Writing smaller functions Large-circles code
9/9	Intro to higher-order functions and filter	HTDP Chapter 20 HTDP Chapter 22			The extract-boas code Notes on loops [ppt] Notes on loops [pdf]
9/11	Filter and Map	HTDP Section 19.1 HTDP Section 21.1 HTDP Section 21.2	HTDP Section 21.2 Exercises Notes and Exercises	Homework 2	Notes and Exercises Notes on lambdas as args Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [ppt] Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [pdf]
9/12	Functions as Values	HTDP Section 22.3			Using functions to customize interfaces
9/15	Trees	HTDP Chapter 14	HTDP Section 14.2 Exercises		Notes on trees [ppt] Notes on trees [pdf]
9/16	Mutual Recursion (more trees)	HTDP Chapter 15	HTDP Section 15.1 Exercises HTDP Section 15.3 Exercises		Code from class

Designing and Implementing Languages : SlideShows

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
9/18	Introduction to Languages	Notes		Homework 3
9/19	A First Slideshow Interpreter	Notes			ppt-stage1.scm (code from class) Summary of Scheme constructs
9/22	Midterm Exam -- In class (CLOSED BOOK)	Midterm Prep Guide	A01 midterm exam C02 midterm exam A02 midterm exam C03 midterm exam
9/23	Adding Time Conditionals and Dynamic Content	Notes			ppt-stage2.scm (time) ppt-stage3.scm (dynamic)

Macros

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
9/25	Introduction to Macros	Macro notes			ppt-macros.scm
9/26	More Macros	Same as last lecture		Homework 4

The State Machine Simulator Language

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
9/29	Languages for Finite State Machines	Notes
9/30	Macros for Finite State Machines	Notes
10/2	Introduction to Streams	streams notes
10/3	Using Streams	notes			code for notes

Web Programming

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
10/6	The Problem of Web Programming	Slides Notes			Code from lecture
10/7	Converting to Script Position	Script Position slides PDF version
10/9	More Script Position and Web Programming	Script Position examples		Homework 6

Odds and Ends

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
10/10	Macros and Recursion	Notes
10/13	The Scheme Web Server (also Course Evals)
10/14	What's with those &$*#^$ parentheses?	Notes		Homework 7
10/16	Final Exam -- In class (OPEN BOOK)	Prep Guide and Sample Exams