Principles of Functional Languages

CSCI 2322
MWF 9:30-10:20am, Halsell 340
Brita Munsinger
email: bmunsing@cs.trinity.edu
phone: (210) 999-7399
office hours: MTWRF 10:30am-11:30am and by appointment

Prerequisite: None. May be taken concurrently with CSCI 1320 or CSCI 1321

Text: George Springer and Daniel Friedman, Scheme and the Art of Programming, 1999

This course is an introduction to functional programming using the language Scheme.

We will cover the following topics:

Chapter 1: Data and operators
Chapter 2: Procedures and recursion
Chapter 3: Data abstraction and numbers
Chapter 4: Data driven recursion
Chapter 5: Locally defined procedures
Chapter 6: Interactive programming
Chapter 7: Abstracting procedures
Chapter 8: Sets and relations
Chapter 9: Using vectors
Chapter 10: Sorting and searching

Grading

There will be 6 laboratory problems. Late work will not be accepted. Your lowest grade will be dropped; only your top 5 grades will count toward your final grade.

Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4
Homework 5
Homework 6

The midterm will include material covered to that point. The final exam will contain material from the entire semester. You may take a make-up midterm if you miss the scheduled time, but the make-up test will be more difficult.

Midterm Review Topics

5 Laboratory problems 40%
Midterm exam (Wednesday, October 15) 20%
Final Exam (Wednesday, December 17, 8:30am) 40%