Schedule

Color key
Classwork is assigned
Classwork is due
Purpose

Week	Date	Topic	Assignment
1	Fri, Feb 7 class meeting; work assigned	course intro	Read Aesthetics and Programming and write short response, due Monday, February 10 by 11:59pm. Read A Brief Introduction to C (skim if needed) and Manual Memory Management and do Lab 1, due February 16 by 11:59pm.
2	Mon, Feb 10 due date		Short response to Aesthetics and Programming due by 11:59pm.
2	Tue, Feb 11 class meeting	memory management
2	Fri, Feb 14 no class meeting; work assigned	NO CLASS (Winter Carnival)	Read How to Fix a Motorcycle and write short response, due Wednesday, February 19 by 11:59pm. Read Passing Pointers by Value and do Lab 2, due Sunday, February 23 by 11:59pm.
3	Sun, Feb 16 due date		Lab 1 due by 11:59pm.
3	Tue, Feb 18 no class meeting	NO CLASS (conference travel)
3	Wed, Feb 19 due date		Short response to How to fix a Motorcycle due by 11:59pm.
3	Fri, Feb 21 class meeting; work assigned	PL foundations	Read Introduction to the Lambda Calculus, Part 1 and write short response, due Wednesday, February 26 by 11:59pm.
4	Sun, Feb 23 due date; work assigned		Lab 2 due by 11:59pm. Read Introduction to the Lambda Calculus, Part 2 and Grammars and Parse Trees and do Lab 3, due March 1 by 11:59pm.
4	Tues, Feb 25 class meeting	grammars; lambda reductions
4	Wed, Feb 26 due date		Short response to Introduction to the Lambda Calculus, Part 1 due by 11:59pm.
4	Fri, Feb 28 class meeting; work assigned	more lambda reductions	Read Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I and LISP Notes and write short response, due Wednesday, March 4 by 11:59pm.
5	Sun, Mar 1 due date; work assigned		Lab 3 due by 11:59pm. Read Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I and LISP Notes and do Lab 4, due March 8 by 11:59pm.
5	Tues, Mar 3 class meeting	LISP
5	Wed, Mar 4 due date		Short response to Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I due by 11:59pm.
5	Fri, Mar 6 class meeting; work assigned	More LISP	Read Beating the Averages and write short response, due Wednesday, March 11 by 11:59pm.
6	Sun, Mar 8 due date; work assigned		Lab 4 due by 11:59pm. Do Lab 5, due March 15 by 11:59pm.
6	Tues, Mar 10 class meeting	computability
6	Wed, Mar 11 due date		Short response to Beating the Averages due by 11:59pm.
6	Fri, Mar 13 class meeting	more computability
7	Sun, Mar 15 due date (with caveats)		Lab 5 due by 11:59pm.
7-9	Mon, Mar 16—Sun, Apr 5 Spring break		Safe travels and rest up!
10	Tue, Apr 7	Midterm Exam Review	Study for the exam
10	Thur, Apr 9 work assigned	Midterm Exam	Turn in the midterm by Monday, April 13 no later than 11:59pm
11	Mon, Apr 13 due date; work assigned	Lab 6 / Midterm Exam Due	Do Lab 6, due April 19 by 11:59pm. Midterm Exam due by 11:59pm.
11	Tue, Apr 14	Intro to F#
11	Thu, Apr 16	Advanced F#
12	Sun, Apr 19 due date; work assigned	Lab 7 / Lab 6 due	Do Lab 7, due April 26 by 11:59pm. Lab 6 (soft) due by 11:59pm. Download starter Parsers.fs here.
12	Tue, Apr 21	Parser Combinators
12	Thu, Apr 23	Project Ideas & SQL
12	Sun, Apr 26 due date	Project Ideas & SQL	Lab 7 (soft) due by 11:59pm.
13	Tue, Apr 28	Program Interpretation
13	Thu, Apr 30 work assigned	Growing a Language	Do Lab 8, due May 10 by 11:59pm.
14	Tue, May 5	Object Oriented Programming, Part 1
14	Thu, May 7	Testing; Packages; Object-Oriented Programming, Part 2
15	Sun, May 10 due date; work assigned		Lab 8 (soft) due by 11:59pm. Do Lab 9, due May 17 by 11:59pm.
15	Tue, May 12	Object Oriented Programming, Part 3; How to Give a Good Talk
16	Thu, May 14	Wrap-up; Project Q&A; Your Future
16	Sun, May 17 due date; work assigned		Lab 9 (soft) due by 11:59pm. Be sure that everything on the Final Project Checklist is complete by due Monday, May 25 by 11:59pm.
17	Mon, May 25 due date;		Final Project (hard) due by 11:59pm. Then enjoy your summer! It was a pleasure having you in my class!