Schedule

Week 1: 9/6

Reading: Prologue, I:1.1-1.7

Topics: DrRacket, Beginning Student Language, numbers, strings, images, booleans

Week 2: 9/13

Reading: I:2.1, I:2.4

Topics: Defining constants, defining functions, testing, the design recipe

Week 3: 9/20

Reading: I:3.1, I:3.5, I:4.1-4.3

Topics: The design recipe, enumerations, conditionals, animations with big-bang

Week 4: 9/27

Reading: I:5

Topics: Structures, interactive animations with big-bang, mouse and key events

Week 5: 10/4

Reading: I:4.5-4.6

Topics: Unions (itemizations)

Week 6: 10/11

Topics: Recursive unions

Week 7: 10/18

Topics: Midterm

Week 8: 10/25

Topics: Recursive unions

Week 9: 11/1

Reading: II:8-9

Topics: Lists, invaders game

Week 10: 11/8

Reading: II:10-13

Topics: Lists, invaders game

Week 11: 11/15

Reading: III:14

Topics: Similarities

Week 12: 11/22

Reading: III:15

Topics: Abstraction design recipe

Week 13: 11/29

Reading: III:16

Topics: Using abstractions, built-in list abstractions, local definitions

Week 14: 12/6

Reading: III:16

Topics: Insertion sort, review

Week 15: 12/13

Topics: Final