Schedule

Note: this schedule is tentative and may change based on student feedback as the semester progresses.

Day	Content	Due
Thu, Jan 23	Welcome + introductions
Mon, Jan 27	Cancelled
Thu, Jan 30	Intro to functional programming, Data in Racket
Fri, Jan 31		Due: Assignment 0
Mon, Feb 3	Scope
Thu, Feb 6	Tail recursion, higher-order functions	Due: Assignment 1
Mon, Feb 10	Higher-order functions, RackUnit
Thu, Feb 13	ASTs, interpreter basics, lexical scope
Mon, Feb 17	Presidents' Day; no class
Tue, Feb 18	Lexical scope cont., Intro OCaml	Due: Assignment 2 (extended)
Thu, Feb 20	Tuples, Variants, Pattern Matching
Mon, Feb 24	Quiz 1
Thu, Feb 27	More Pattern Matching, Currying	Due: Assignment 3
Mon, Mar 3	Currying
Thu, Mar 6	Exceptions, composition, type checking	Due: Assignment 4
Mon, Mar 10	Type inference
Thu, Mar 13	Mutation	Due: Assignment 5
Mon, Mar 17	Spring break
Mon, Mar 24	Mutation cont.
Thu, Mar 27	Lazy evaluation, thunks, streams
Mon, Mar 31	Quiz 2
Thu, Apr 3	More interpreters: imperative, break/continue	Due: Assignment 6
Mon, Apr 7	Parallelism/concurrency
Thu, Apr 10	Parallelism/concurrency cont.	Due: Assignment 7
Mon, Apr 14	Objects
Thu, Apr 17	Objects continued	Due: Assignment 8
Mon, Apr 21	Patriots day; no class
Thu, Apr 24	Memory safety
Mon, Apr 28	Quiz 3
Thu, May 1	Final class!
Mon, May 5		Due: Assignment 9
Fri, May 9	Optional quiz retakes, 8:30 am - 11:30 am