6.001 Fall 1998: Problem set 1

Issued: Thursday, September 10
Tutorial preparation for: Week of September 14.
Written solutions due: Friday, September 18 in recitation
Reading: Read sections 2.1 and 2.2.1 before lecture on September 17. Finish chapter 1 before lecture on September 22.

Text of the problem set

Problem set in postscript format, for printing or viewing with a program like ghostview

Problem set in HTML format, for Web browsing

Problem set in pdf format, for viewing with Adobe Acrobat (available from www.adobe.com).

Problem set in dvi format, for viewing a program like xdvi (no figures included).

Code to load for this problem set

For GNU/Linux users
Gzipped tar file format. Put this tar file in the psets directory, go to that directory, and type
tar xvf ps1.tar.gz. If this works, you can remove the tar file.

For Windows95 and Windows NT users
Zip file format. Unzip this file in the into the directory you set up as your problem sets directory when you installed 6.001 Scheme (this will be a directory with the name psets under the directory you actually specified). The result should update the probsets file in the psets directory and also place in psets a directory called ps1 that contains one file: crypto.scm.

Code to read for this problem set

When you load the problem set, the following code file (included in the tar and zip packages above) will be placed in an Edwin buffer so that you can examine it easily. Here is another copy of the code, in a form that you can look at with a web browser:

crypto.scm

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