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!

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
1/9	Introduction to Scheme	HTDP Chapter 2 HTDP Chapter 3	HTDP Section 2.2 Exercises HTDP Section 2.3 Exercises HTDP Section 3.3 Exercises
1/10	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
1/13	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
1/14	Nested Structures, Intro to Lists	HTDP Chapter 9.1 HTDP Chapter 9.2	HTDP Section 9.1 Exercises HTDP Section 9.2 Exercises		Programming Inside Out
1/16	Lists and The Design Recipe	HTDP Chapter 9 HTDP Chapter 10	HTDP Section 9.5 Exercises HTDP Section 10.1 Exercises	Homework 1	Notes on design process [ppt] Notes on design process [pdf] Design Recipe Worksheet [pdf]
1/17	Lists of structures and sorting	HTDP Chapter 10.2	HTDP Section 10.2 Exercises		insertion sort
1/20	Intro to higher-order functions and filter	HTDP Chapter 20 HTDP Chapter 22			Notes on loops [ppt] Notes on loops [pdf]
1/21	Filter and Map	HTDP Chapter 19.1 HTDP Chapter 21.1 HTDP Chapter 21.2	HTDP Section 21.2.2-3 Exercises [NEW] Notes and Exercises		Notes on lambdas as args Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [ppt] Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [pdf]
1/23	Functions as Values
1/24	Trees	HTDP Chapter 14	HTDP Section 14.2 Exercises	Homework 2	Notes on trees [ppt] Notes on trees [pdf]
1/27	Mutual Recursion (more trees)	HTDP Chapter 15	HTDP Section 15.1 Exercises HTDP Section 15.3 Exercises

Designing and Implementing Languages : SlideShows

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
1/28	Introduction to Languages	Notes
1/30	A First Powerpoint Interpreter	Notes			ppt-stage1.scm Summary of Scheme constructs
1/31	Adding Time Conditionals and Dynamic Content	Notes		Homework 3	ppt-stage2.scm (time) ppt-stage3.scm (dynamic)
2/3	Midterm Exam -- In class (CLOSED BOOK)	Midterm Prep Guide	A01 midterm exam C02 midterm exam A02 midterm exam
2/4	Introduction to Macros	Macro notes			ppt-macros.scm
2/6	More Macros	Same as last lecture		Homework 4
2/7	Recursive Macros	Notes

The State Machine Simulator Language

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/10	Languages for Finite State Machines	Notes			notes on set!
2/11	Macros for Finite State Machines	Notes
2/13	Academic Advising Day (no class)			Homework 5
2/14	Introduction to Streams	letrec notes streams notes
2/17	Snow Day
2/18	Using Streams	notes			code for notes

Web Programming

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/20	The Problem of Web Programming	Slides		Homework 6
2/21	Converting to Script Position	Script Position slides Text version
2/24	More Script Position and Web Programming	Script Position examples

Odds and Ends

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/25	What's with those &$*#^$ parentheses? (also Course Evals)	Notes		Homework 7
2/27	Final Exam -- In class (OPEN BOOK)	Prep Guide and Sample Exams