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Homework Submission Guide

Office Hours

Nick

Available after class

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Corky

Wednesday

Tuesday, Thursday

2pm–4pm

9:15am–10:30am

DCH 3110

DCH 3104

TAs

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Textbooks

There is no required textbook. We will follow the pedagogic approach of "How to Design Programs" but in a typed context. We will also draw material from a variety of sources, including:

Online Videos

Development Environment

The DrScala Pedagogic IDE is recommended for all homework assignments in this course.
You may also use IntelliJ IDEA. See the setup instructions for working with Scala projects in this course.

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Week	Day	Date	Topic	Work Assigned	Work Due
1	Tu	Aug 22	Overview, Motivation
	Th	Aug 24	What are Types, Core Scala	Hwk 0
2	Tu	Aug 29	—
	Th	Aug 31	—
3	Tu	Sep 05	Doubles, Programming with Intention, The Design Recipe
	Th	Sep 07	Functions on Ranges, Point Values, Compound Datatypes
4	Tu	Sep 12	Methods, Grading, DrScala
	Th	Sep 14	Static Type Checking, Abstract Datatypes	Hwk 1
5	Tu	Sep 19	Abstract Datatypes 2, Recursively Defined Types
	Th	Sep 21	Recursively Defined Types 2, Functions as Values
6	Tu	Sep 26	1st-Class Functions, Imports, Variable & Named Args
	Th	Sep 28	Exceptions, String Formatting, Generic Types	Hwk 2	Hwk 1
7	Tu	Oct 03	Covariance and Contravariance, ...
	Th	Oct 05	... Currying, Fold, Flatmap, and For Expressions
8	Tu	Oct 10	MIDTERM RECESS
	Th	Oct 12	Type Hierarchy, Overrides, Exceptions, Operators	Hwk 3	Hwk 2
9	Tu	Oct 17	For Expressions, Monads, The Environment Model
	Th	Oct 19	Scala Collections Classes, Traits
10	Tu	Oct 24	Generative Recursion
	Th	Oct 26	Strategies for Generative Recursion	Hwk 4	Hwk 3
11	Tu	Oct 31	Accumulators
	Th	Nov 02	Functional Data Structures
12	Tu	Nov 07	Streams, State, Mutation
	Th	Nov 09	Mechanical Proof Checkin, The Curry-Howard Isomorphism	~~Hwk 5~~	Hwk 4
13	Tu	Nov 14	The State Monad
	Th	Nov 16	Additional Scala Features, Extractors, Parser Combinators	Hwk 5
14	Tu	Nov 21	More Parser Combinators, Actors and Concurrency*	Hwk 6 (Optional)
	Th	Nov 23	THANKSGIVING
15	Tu	Nov 28	Functional Distributed Computing*
	Th	Nov 30Course Wrap Up	Videos: What to Leave Implicit and Impromptu		Hwk 5 & 6
16	Tu	Dec 05	Study Days (no classes)
	F	Dec 08	Final Exam (DH 1064 at 2pm)

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