This handout is also available in PDF.
For a number of reasons, I have chosen to make many of the handouts for
this course available only in electronic format on the World Wide Web.
I will not go over basic use of the Web, since you should know about
it from other courses. You should make sure to ask me if you have any
questions about using the World Wide Web.
The course web can be found at
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2010S/
You may want to bookmark that page.
A number of important pieces of information are in the course web,
including assignments, readings, requirements, syllabus, and
office hours. I assume that if I put information on the Web, you will
(eventually) read it.
- At the bare minimum, you should read all the
pieces of basic information about
the course, which starts at the front door.
- Of particular interest is the
syllabus pages, which lists all the
daily topics. You should consider
checking it regularly, because things do change. (I try not to
change due dates of assignments.)
- I prepare a rough outline for
each class. Most students find these useful, and you should feel
free to refer to them before, during, and after class.
- During class, I do my best to use the computer as the blackboard,
creating the objects that I call EBoards.
At the top and bottom of every page are a series of links to
important components of the course web. They are broken into
a variety of sections whose purpose should be obvious.
- Front Door. The
home page
for the course.
(Following the lead of my colleague, John Stone, I tend to avoid the
term home page
, since it has two very different meanings: the
starting point for others to explore the site (for which we use the
phrase Front Door
) and the starting point for the developer to
explore the Web (for which we use the word Origin
).
- Syllabus. One version of the syllabus (that is, the schedule of topics and assignments).
- Academic Honesty. A short discourse on academic
honesty, added to the common links so that you'll make sure to check it.
- Instructions. This set of instructions.
Here you will find links to materials for the current or next class.
Due to issues in the way Firefox caches pages, you may sometimes need
to reload the page to get the appropriate version. I try to have the
links for a particular class available at least twelve hours before
class and at least one hour after class. Because I sometimes fail
to make my own deadlines, you may want to compare what you see with what
the syllabus says.
Note that you can often find the current version of any part of the course
by using a page name of current.html in the appropriate
course subsite. (If that computer-ese made no sense to you, ignore it.)
- Assignments. A list of the
assignments for the class, accompanied by their due dates
- EBoards. The electronic
blackboards
is use for this class in lieu of the physical
whiteboards. The EBoards provide a quick way for you to check what
we've covered in each class.
- Exams. The exams for the course
(and notes on the exams, if available).
- Examples. A list of examples
generated for this class. You will probably see this as a
directory listing, rather than a Web page.
- Handouts. The primary handouts
for the class, such as these instructions.
- Labs.
Laboratory exercises.
- Outlines. The outlines of
classes that
have been held. You can sometimes access other outlines through the
course at a glance and the
course syllabus.
- Projects. This semester, we will have
a two-week long course projects. This link will eventually lead
to more information on that projects.
- Readings. Readings generated
for this course.
Here you will find links to some additional references.
- Primary. A locally-generated collection
of Scheme reference material for this course, broken up by general subject.
(The same material is available under the MediaScheme
Reference
menu.
- A-Z. The same collection,
organized alphabetically on a single page.
- Scheme Report (R5RS). A relatively short but comprehensive report on the last reasonably-sized version of Scheme.
- R6RS. The longer but more core current
Revised6 report.
- TSPL4. An online version of
the 4th Edition of R. Kent Dybvig's The Scheme Programming Langauge,
a more comprehensive reference to Scheme.
Here you will find links to similar courses at Grinnell, including the
other section from this semester, the last version of the course I taught
prior to this, and such.
Here you will find other useful links.
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