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This course introduces program design through fixed-size and arbitrarily large data, abstraction, scope, generative recursion, computation costs, and accumulators.

Syllabus

  • Prologue:  How to Program
  • I Fixed-Size Data
    • Intermezzo 1: Beginning Student Language
  • II Arbitrarily Large Data
    • Intermezzo 2: Quote, Unquote
  • III Abstraction
    • Intermezzo 3: Scope and Abstraction
  • IV Intertwined Data
    • Intermezzo 4: The Nature of Numbers
  • V Generative Recursion
    • Intermezzo 5: The Cost of Computation
  • VI Accumulators
    • Epilogue:  Moving On

Taught by

Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi

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