Car-Cdr Recursion Problem that Returns the Sum of Every Element in a List of Integers, How Scheme Checks Type During Run-Time Rather than Compilation, Recursive Implementation of the Fibonacci Function in Scheme, Example that Illustrates Runtime Error/Type Checking Vs. Compile-Time Error/Type Checking, Writing a Recursive Flatten Function that Removes All the Intervening Parentheses from a List, Using a Cond Structure to Branch Over the Various Recursive Cases in the Flatten Function, Using the Else Statement to Make Sure that Cond Always Returns Something, Writing the Sorted? Function for a List of Integers, Using the Or Function to Handle the Base Case Logic And Cadr As Shorthand for the Second Element, Using < And <= With Multiple Arguments in Scheme, Function Pointers in Scheme, How Function Data Is Stored Like a Linked List in Scheme And Function Names Are Linked to Code in a Symbol Table, Generalizing the Sorted? Function By Passing in a Comparison Function as the Second Parameter
Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#.
Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++. You should be comfortable with arrays, pointers, references, classes, methods, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, linked lists, binary search trees, hashing, iterators, and function pointers. You should be able to write well-decomposed, easy-to-understand code, and understand the value that comes with good variable names, short function and method implementations, and thoughtful, articulate comments.
