Held: Friday, 4 March 2016

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Summary

We consider characters and strings, two basic types in Scheme. Strings are used to represent text in Scheme, and characters are the building blocks of strings.

Related Pages

• Reading: Characters and Strings
• Lab: Characters and Strings
• EBoard 24 (Source 24)

Overview

• Representing text.
• Characters: The basic building blocks.
• Combining characters into strings.

Administrivia

Characters and Strings

• Characters: The building blocks of strings
• Strings: Collections of characters
• Together: The basics types for input and output in Scheme.
• Also: A nice way to name things.

Lab

• Do the lab.
• Be prepared to reflect.