Schedule

Jan-12 - Jan-18

Assignments:
- Syllabus Quiz: Assigned on Wed, Jan 14
- Basic Environment Setup Quiz: Assigned on Wed, Jan 14 | Assignment
- HtDP Prologue Rocket Ship LargeSoftwareProject: Assigned on Wed, Jan 14 | Assignment
Wed, Jan 14 Lecture: Basic Calculations with Dr Racket
- Topics:
  - Course Introduction
  - Questions
  - Basic moving about
  - Basic data types
- 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

Jan-19 - Jan-25

Assignments:
Mon, Jan 19 Lecture: Class cancelled for MLK Day
Wed, Jan 21 Lecture: More Basic Calculations with Dr Racket
- Topics:
  - Parentheses
  - Language documentation and help
  - Interactions & definitions windows
- Preparation:
  - 🎥 Comments
  - 🎥 Stepping
  - 🎥 Calculating with images

Jan-26 - Feb-01

Assignments:
- First Functions ProblemSet: Assigned on Wed, Jan 28 | Assignment
- Office hours Viva: Assigned on Wed, Jan 28 | Assignment
Mon, Jan 26 Lecture: Class cancelled - snow day
Wed, Jan 28 Lecture: Functions, Design, and Manipulating Images
- Topics:
  - Images as values
  - Definitions
  - Table method
  - Animation
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 1, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch 2, "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Prologue, "How to Design Programs"
  - 📖 Ch 2 How to Design Programs
  - 📖 Ch 3 How to Design Programs
  - 📖 Defining constants
  - 📖 Changing a definition
  - 📖 Stepping with constants
  - 📖 Defining functions
  - 📖 Defining multi-argument functions
  - 📖 Animation
  - 📖 Stepping functions
  - 🎥 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
  - 🎥 Making images
  - 🎥 Stepping Images
- Extra Resources:

Feb-02 - Feb-08

Assignments:
- Designing with Conditionals Quiz: Assigned on Mon, Feb 02
Mon, Feb 02 Lecture: Aliens Coordinates; Making Decisions
- Topics:
  - The Aliens Attack Project(s)
  - Logical coordinates vs image coordinates
  - Alien Design
  - booleans
  - intervals
  - enumerations
  - designing with conditionals
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 4 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 5 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 🎥 booleans and "if" expressions
  - 🎥 designing using a conditional
  - 🎥 designing with intervals
  - 🎥 enumerations
- Extra Resources:
Wed, Feb 04 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

Feb-09 - Feb-15

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack Version 1 LargeSoftwareProject: Assigned on Mon, Feb 09 | Assignment
Mon, Feb 09 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, Feb 11 Lecture: Open lab practice session
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch 8, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Nested Structure Expressions
  - Designing functions for compound data

Feb-16 - Feb-22

Assignments:
- Structures ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Feb 16 | Assignment
- Aliens Attack Version 2 LargeSoftwareProject: Assigned on Mon, Feb 16 | Assignment
Mon, Feb 16 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, Feb 18 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

Feb-23 - Mar-01

Assignments:
- Aliens Attack v.3: Assigned on Mon, Feb 23 | Assignment
Mon, Feb 23 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, Feb 25 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

Mar-02 - Mar-08

Assignments:
Mon, Mar 02 Lecture: NONE - SPRING BREAK
Wed, Mar 04 Lecture: NONE - SPRING BREAK

Mar-09 - Mar-15

Assignments:
Mon, Mar 09 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:
  - Abstracting from Data Definitions
Wed, Mar 11 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

Mar-16 - Mar-22

Assignments:
Mon, Mar 16 Lecture: Trees, Mutual Recursion, and Cross-product templates
- Topics:
  - Lab work
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 16 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 17 "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Mar 18 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

Mar-23 - Mar-29

Assignments:
- Lists ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Mar 23 | Assignment
- Higher-order functions ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Mar 23 | Assignment
- Aliens Attack v.4: Assigned on Mon, Mar 23 | Assignment
Mon, Mar 23 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, Mar 25 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

Mar-30 - Apr-05

Assignments:
Mon, Mar 30 Lecture: Exam 1
- Topics:
  - Individual, paper exam
Wed, Apr 01 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.5
- Topics:
  - Aliens Ch. 5
  - Encapsulation
  - Abstraction in context
  - Lambda expressions in context
  - Refactoring
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 23 "Animated Problem Solving"

Apr-06 - Apr-12

Assignments:
- Lambda abstractions ProblemSet: Assigned on Mon, Apr 06 | Assignment
- Aliens Attack v.4 Resubmit: Assigned on Mon, Apr 06 | Assignment
Mon, Apr 06 Lecture: Class cancelled - school closed
Wed, Apr 08 Lecture: Objects, object-oriented programming
- Topics:
  - local blocks
  - multiple behaviors
  - selecting multiple behaviors
  - local values, constructors
  - object-oriented style programming

Apr-13 - Apr-19

Assignments:
Mon, Apr 13 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, Apr 15 Lecture: Mutually Recursive Data
- Topics:
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 18 "Animated Problem Solving"
  - 📖 Ch. 19-§19.4 "How to Design Programs"

Apr-20 - Apr-26

Assignments:
Mon, Apr 20 Lecture: Interfaces
- Topics:
  - Designing an interface
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 25, "Animated Problem Solving"
Wed, Apr 22 Lecture: Introduction to Distributed Programming
- Topics:
  - Protocol diagrams and lifeline diagrams
  - Understanding the 2htdp/universe model
  - An example distributed programming application
  - ping, IP addresses, shell prompt
  - 2htdp/universe
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 26, "Animated Problem Solving"

Apr-27 - May-03

Assignments:
- Distributed Multiplayer tug-of-war, developed in class: Assigned on Mon, Apr 27
Mon, Apr 27 Lecture: Universe, distributed programming, and you
- Topics:
  - What is a distributed program?
  - Distributed programming model
  - Design recipe for distributed programming
  - Preparing to make a game distributed
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 27, "Animated Problem Solving"
- Extra Resources:
  - Basic Client Server Code
  - Universe Documentation
Wed, Apr 29 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.7
- Topics:
  - Thin server model
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 28, "Animated Problem Solving"

May-04 - May-10

Assignments:
Mon, May 04 Lecture: Aliens Attack v.8
- Topics:
  - Aliens Attack v.8
- Preparation:
  - 📖 Ch. 28, "Animated Problem Solving"