Schedule

Note: this schedule is tentative and may change based on student feedback as the semester progresses.
Day Content Reading (Optional) Due
Thu, Sept 4
Welcome, introduction to PL
Mon, Sept 8
Functional programming, data in Racket
Racket Guide, 1-1.2, Ch. 2 as needed
Thu, Sept 11
Scope, semantics, call stack
CS111 refresher on call stack RackUnit
Due: A0: Intro
Mon, Sept 15
Tail recursion, unit testing
Racket Guide, 2.3.3
Thu, Sept 18
Higher-order functions
Beautiful Racket explainer: functions
Due: A1: Values
Mon, Sept 22
Programs as data (interpreters)
PLAI: Representing Arithmetic, Evaluating Arithmetic plait language tutorial
Thu, Sept 25
More interp, lexical vs. dynamic scope
PLAI 2nd edition: Environments, Scope
Due: A2: Functions
Mon, Sept 29
Intro OCaml, static types
OCaml Programming: 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.3
Thu, Oct 2
OCaml cont, compound static types
OCaml Programming: 2.4, 3.0, 3.1-3.4
Sun, Oct 5
Due: A3: Interp
Mon, Oct 6
More pattern matching, currying
OCaml Programming: 3.5, 3.7, 3.11, 4.1, 4.7
Thu, Oct 9
Quiz 1
Mon, Oct 13 Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Thu, Oct 16
Exceptions, type checking
OCaml Programming: 3.10 OCaml Programming: 10.5
Due: A4: Static Types
Mon, Oct 20
Type inference
OCaml Programming: 10.6
Thu, Oct 23
Mutation
OCaml Programming: 6
Due: A5: Type Checking
Mon, Oct 27
Lazy evaluation, thunks, streams
OCaml Programming: 9.4 (note: slightly different conventions)
Thu, Oct 30
Modularity
OCaml Programming: 5-5.2
Fri, Oct 31
Due: A6: Types II
Mon, Nov 3
Modularity cont.
Thu, Nov 6
Quiz 2
Mon, Nov 10
Parallelism/concurrency
OCaml Programming: 7
Thu, Nov 13
Parallelism/concurrency cont.
OCaml manual: Parallel Programming
Due: A7: Modularity
Mon, Nov 17
Objects
PLAI (2nd Ed.): Ch. 10
Thu, Nov 20
Dynamic dispatch
Mon, Nov 24
Subclass polymorphism, memory safety
Tues, Nov 25
Due: A8: Parallelism/Concurrency
Thu, Nov 27 Thanksgiving
Mon, Dec 1
Memory safety & management cont.
Thu, Dec 4
Quiz 3
Mon, Dec 8
Final class!
Due: Checkpoint: A9: MiniJava
Mon, Dec 15
(Optional) quiz retakes, 6:00-8:30pm, PNE-216
Tues, Dec 16
Due: A9: MiniJava