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!

The midterm will be on Monday, February 9th.

The final will be on Thursday, March 4th.

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
1/15	Introduction to Scheme	HTDP Chapter 2 HTDP Chapter 3	HTDP Section 2.2 Exercises HTDP Section 2.3 Exercises HTDP Section 3.3 Exercises
1/16	Symbols and Conditionals	HTDP Chapter 4 HTDP Chapter 5	HTDP Section 4.3 Exercises HTDP Section 4.4 Exercises HTDP Section 5.1 Exercises
1/19	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
1/20	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 Working with Images
1/22	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]
1/23	Lists of structures and sorting	HTDP Chapter 10.2	HTDP Section 10.2 Exercises		insertion sort Large-circles code
1/26	Intro to higher-order functions and filter	HTDP Chapter 20 HTDP Chapter 22			Notes on loops [ppt] Notes on loops [pdf]
1/27	Filter and Map	HTDP Chapter 19.1 HTDP Chapter 21.1 HTDP Chapter 21.2	HTDP Section 21.2.2-3 Exercises Notes and Exercises		Notes on functions as args Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [ppt] Advanced Loops (OPTIONAL) [pdf]
1/29	Functions as Values				The room draw exercise room draw solution
1/30	Trees	HTDP Chapter 14	HTDP Section 14.2 Exercises	Homework 2	class problems with solutions Notes on trees [ppt] Notes on trees [pdf]
2/2	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
2/3	Introduction to Languages	Notes
2/5	A First Powerpoint Interpreter	Notes		Homework 3	ppt-stage1.scm Summary of Scheme constructs
2/6	Adding Time Conditionals and Dynamic Content	Notes			ppt-stage2.scm (time) ppt-stage3.scm (dynamic)
2/9	Midterm Exam -- In class (CLOSED BOOK)	Midterm Prep Guide	A01 midterm exam C02 midterm exam A02 midterm exam C03 midterm exam A03 midterm exam

Macros

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/10	Introduction to Macros	Macro notes			ppt-macros.scm
2/12	More Macros	Same as last lecture Recursive macros		Homework 4

The State Machine Simulator Language

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/13	Languages for Finite State Machines	Notes			Deriving languages from code Another state machine example
2/16	Macros for State Machines	Notes		Project Design
2/17	Error checking in State Machines; Languages Recap	Error checking macros Languages recap			Leaky Abstractions
2/19	Academic Advising Day (no class)			Homework 5

Web Programming

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/20	The Problem of Web Programming	Slides Notes	review session exercises
2/23	Converting to Script Position	Notes	review session exercises (2 days)
2/24	Practice with Script Position	Script Position examples
2/26	Languages for Web Programming		review session exercises (2 days)	Homework 6

Odds and Ends

Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Extra Exercises	Due	Notes
2/27	One more language design	problem handout
3/1	What's with those *#$!@%@! parentheses?
3/2	More on those parentheses? (also Course Evals)
3/4	Final Exam -- In class (OPEN BOOK)	Prep Guide and Sample Exams