Schedule

Aug-28 - Sep-03

Assignments:
- Syllabus Quiz: Assigned on Mon, Aug 28
- Basic Environment Setup Quiz: Assigned on Wed, Aug 30 | Starter Code
Mon, Aug 28 Lecture: Basic Calculations with Dr Racket
- Topics:
  - Course Introduction
  - Questions
  - Basic moving about
  - Basic data types
  - Parentheses
  - Language documentation and help
  - Interactions & definitions windows
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Course Syllabus
  - 📖 Ch 1, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 🎥 Download and install Dr Racket
  - 🎥 Dr Racket as a Calculator
  - 🎥 Chaining operations
  - 🎥 The definitions window
  - 🎥 Comments
  - 🎥 Stepping
  - 🎥 Calculating with images
Wed, Aug 30 Lecture: Manipulating Images
- Topics:
  - Images as values
  - Definitions
  - Designing functions
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 2, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Prologue, "How to Design Programs"
  - 🎥 Making images
  - 🎥 Stepping Images
  - 🎥 Defining constants
  - 🎥 Changing a definition
  - 🎥 Stepping with constants
  - 🎥 Defining functions
  - 🎥 Defining multi-argument functions
  - 🎥 Animation
  - 🎥 Stepping functions
- Extra Resources:
  - How to Design Functions, in slow motion

Sep-04 - Sep-10

Assignments:
- HtDP Prologue Rocket Ship LargeSoftwareProject: Assigned on Wed, Sep 06 | Starter Code
- First Functions ProblemSet: Assigned on Wed, Sep 06 | Starter Code
Mon, Sep 04 Lecture: Labor Day - Class is Cancelled
Wed, Sep 06 Lecture: Functions & Design
- Topics:
  - Designing Functions
  - Table method
  - Animation
  - Purpose statements and prompt engineering
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 2 How to Design Programs
  - 📖 Ch 3 How to Design Programs
  - 🎥 Parentheses and editing
  - 🎥 Designing a 1-argument function
  - 🎥 Design Recipe Tips
  - 🎥 Designing a 2-argument function
  - 🎥 Data definition aliases
  - 🎥 Designing an animation
  - 🎥 The table method
  - 🎥 Table method with 2 inputs
- Extra Resources:
  - BSL Table Design
  - The Design Recipe in short, for data and functions

Sep-11 - Sep-17

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack 0 LargeSoftware: Assigned on Wed, Sep 13
Mon, Sep 11 Lecture: Open lab practice session
- Topics:
  - Practicing designing functions
  - Practicing working in groups
  - Practice with the BSL docs and APIs
- Extra Resources:
  - Porpoise (URL provided in class)
Wed, Sep 13 Lecture: Designing Aliens Attack 0
- Topics:
  - The Aliens Attack Project(s)
  - Logical coordinates vs image coordinates
  - Alien Design
  - Using Github, source code version control
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 4 "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Animated Problem Solving Github Repository
  - Space Invaders Game Play

Sep-18 - Sep-24

Assignments:
- Designing with Conditionals Quiz: Assigned on Mon, Sep 18
- Aliens Attack Version 1 LargeSoftwareProject: Assigned on Wed, Sep 20 | Starter Code
Mon, Sep 18 Lecture: Making Decisions
- Topics:
  - booleans
  - intervals
  - enumerations
  - designing with conditionals
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Animated Problem Solving Ch. 5
- Extra Resources:
  - templates for enumeration
Wed, Sep 20 Lecture: Designing Aliens Attack version 1
- Topics:
  - interactive simulations
  - big-bang library
  - WorldState data definitions
  - on-key
  - on-draw
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Animated Problem Solving Ch. 6
  - 📖 Ch. 3 §6, How to Design Programs
  - 🎥 big-bang for interactive animations
  - 🎥 Animation using big bang
  - 🎥 Key events
  - 🎥 Designing a world
- Extra Resources:
  - How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming

Sep-25 - Oct-01

Assignments:
- Structures ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Sep 25 | Starter Code
Mon, Sep 25 Lecture: Structured Data & Defining structs
- Topics:
  - 2D Posns
  - Compound datatypes
  - Defining structures
  - Functions w/structured data
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 5, "How to Design Programs"
  - 🎥 Parts of a struct
  - 🎥 Compound Data definitions
  - 🎥 Structure Functions
  - 🎥 Designing functions w/structured data
- Extra Resources:
  - Ch 7, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - Defining Structures
  - How to Code Structs
  - Defining Compound Data
  - What and how of structures
  - Design Recipe for Structures
Wed, Sep 27 Lecture: Open lab practice session
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 8, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Nested Structure Expressions
  - Designing functions for compound data

Oct-02 - Oct-08

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack v.2: Assigned on Mon, Oct 02 | Starter Code
Mon, Oct 02 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.2
- Topics:
  - Refining code
  - Subtyping
  - Errors and error handling
  - format strings
  - stop-when? and ending games
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 9, "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Oct 04 Lecture: Structures and Variety
- Topics:
  - Unions
  - Structs and Variety
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 6, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 10, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 🎥 Intro to Unions
  - 🎥 Designing with Unions
  - 🎥 Design w/Unions pt. 2
- Extra Resources:
  - Nested Structures

Oct-09 - Oct-15

Assignments:
Mon, Oct 09 Lecture: NONE - FALL BREAK
Wed, Oct 11 Lecture: NONE - CLASS CANCELLED

Oct-16 - Oct-22

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack v.3: Assigned on Mon, Oct 16 | Starter Code
Mon, Oct 16 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.3
- Topics:
  - adjusting process-tick
  - move-shot
  - draw-last-world refinement
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 11, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 🎥 Big Bang w/Unions
- Extra Resources:
  - Design & iterative dev w/a real game
Wed, Oct 18 Lecture: Arbitrarily-sized Data and Lists
- Topics:
  - Arbitrarily-sized Data
  - Lists
  - Templates for Functions on Lists
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 8, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 9, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 12, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Intermezzo 2, "How to Design Programs"
  - 🎥 Unlimited Data
  - 🎥 More Unlimited Data Examples
  - 🎥 Templates for Unlimited Data
  - 🎥 List Abbreviations
- Extra Resources:
  - Templates for Lists
  - Building w/cons in 3D

Oct-23 - Oct-29

Assignments:
- Lists ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Oct 23 | Starter Code
- Aliens Attack v.4: Assigned on Wed, Oct 25 | Starter Code
Mon, Oct 23 Lecture: Designing w/Lists
- Topics:
  - Searching lists
  - operating over lists
  - Designing by composition
  - Desiging for structured data and recursive structures
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 10-10.3, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 11, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 13, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
Wed, Oct 25 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.4
- Topics:
  - Adding Lists of aliens
  - Refining the world
  - Refining the shot data definition
  - Adding multiple shots at once
  - Refining draw world
  - Numbers as structured data
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 14, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 15, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 16, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Constructing Numbers

Oct-30 - Nov-05

Assignments:
- Higher-order functions ProblemSet: Assigned on Wed, Nov 01 | Starter Code
Mon, Oct 30 Lecture: Trees, Mutual Recursion, and Cross-product templates
- Topics:
  - Lab work
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 16 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 17 "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Nov 01 Lecture: Functional Abstraction
- Topics:
  - Using data abstraction over functions
  - Using function abstraction over functions
  - Some built in higher-order functions
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 14, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch. 15, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch. 16, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch. 20 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 21 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 🎥 Function Abstraction soup to nuts
  - 🎥 Writing Similar Functions
  - 🎥 Abstracting Similar Functions
  - 🎥 Abstracting Functions
  - 🎥 Exposing similarity in functions
  - 🎥 Understanding a higher-order function
  - 🎥 A built-in abstraction
  - 🎥 Built-in Abstractions
  - 🎥 Understanding map
  - 🎥 Understanding foldr

Nov-06 - Nov-12

Assignments:
- Lambda abstractions ProblemSet: Assigned on Wed, Nov 08 | Starter Code
Mon, Nov 06 Lecture: Open lab practice session
- Topics:
  - Practicing designing higher-order functions
  - Practicing working in groups
  - Practice with the ISL+ docs and APIs
- Extra Resources:
Wed, Nov 08 Lecture: Local definitions and lambda abstraction
- Topics:
  - Local definitions and internal functions
  - functions as values
  - anonymous functions
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 22, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 17, "How to Design Programs"
  - 🎥 Introduction to Local

Nov-13 - Nov-19

Assignments:
Mon, Nov 13 Lecture: Big Daily Quiz
- Topics:
  - Longitudinal Practice
Wed, Nov 15 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.5
- Topics:
  - Aliens Ch. 5
  - Encapsulation
  - Abstraction in context
  - Lambda expressions in context
  - Refactoring
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 23 "Animated Problem Solving"

Nov-20 - Nov-26

Assignments:
Mon, Nov 20 Lecture: Loops and pattern matching
- Topics:
  - "Syntax Sugar"
  - Loop constructs
  - Pattern matching
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Intermezzo 3, Pt II, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Intermezzo 3, Pt III, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch. 24, "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Nov 22 Lecture: Thanksgiving Break - Class is Cancelled

Nov-27 - Dec-03

Assignments:
Mon, Nov 27 Lecture: Interfaces
- Topics:
  - CANCELLED, ILLNESS
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 25, "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Nov 29 Lecture: Introduction to Distributed Programming
- Topics:
  - What is a distributed program?
  - Distributed programming model
  - Design recipe for distributed programming
  - 2htdp/universe
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 26, "Animated Problem Solving"

Dec-04 - Dec-10

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack v.6/7: Assigned on Wed, Dec 06
Mon, Dec 04 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.6
- Topics:
  - Protocol diagrams and lifeline diagrams
  - Understanding the 2htdp/universe model
  - An example distributed programming application
  - ping, IP addresses, shell prompt
  - Preparing to make a game distributed
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 27, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Basic Client Server Code
  - Universe Documentation
Wed, Dec 06 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.7
- Topics:
  - Thin server model
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 28, "Animated Problem Solving"

Dec-11 - Dec-17

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack v.8: Assigned on Mon, Dec 11 | Starter Code
Mon, Dec 11 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.8
- Topics:
  - Aliens Attack v.8
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 28, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
Wed, Dec 13 Lecture: Mutually Recursive Data
- Topics:
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 18 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 19-§19.4 "How to Design Programs"
- Extra Resources: