Note that many lectures will cover material that is not in the book.
Mon |
Tue |
Wed |
Thu |
Fri |
February 2 | 3 Lect 1: Intro to 6.001 PS1 out |
4 Recitations start. (Recitations meet every Wednesday and Friday.) |
5 Lect 2: Intro to Lisp |
6 First microquiz. (Microquiz in recitation every Friday.) |
February 9 Tutorials start |
10 Lect 3: Processes, public-key cryptography PS2 out |
11 | 12 Lect 4: Higher-order procedures. Integrators for ODEs |
13 PS1 due |
February 16 Holiday |
17 Virtual Monday PS3 out: (on web) |
18 | 19 Lect 5: Compound data, evolution of the Solar system |
20 PS2 due |
February 23 | 24 Lect 6: Operations on aggregates PS4 out |
25 | 26 Lect 7: Symbolic data; Content labelling on the World Wide Web |
27 PS3 due |
March 2 | 3 Lect 8: Pattern matching; designing drugs Non-PS5 out (quiz1 prep) |
4 | 5 Lect 9: Generic operations; databases for corporate mergers |
6 Add date PS4 due |
March 9 | 10 Lect 10: Software patents and copyrights PS6 out |
11 Quiz 1: Covers from start of semester through PS4 |
12 Lect 11: State, mutable data, Web spiders |
13 |
March 16 | 17 Lect 12: Environment model of evaluation PS7 out |
18 | 19 Lect 13: Object-oriented programming |
20 PS6 due |
March 23
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24 Spring Vacation |
25 Spring Vacation |
26 Spring Vacation |
27 Spring Vacation |
March 30 | 31 Lect 14: Streams, speech recognition PS8 out |
April 1 | 2 Lect 15: Concurrency |
3 PS7 due |
April 6 | 7 Lect 16: Biological computing non-PS9 out (quiz2 prep) |
8 | 9 Lect 17: Metacircular evaluator |
10 PS8 due |
April 13 | 14 Lect 18: Alan Turing and universal machines Quiz 2: Covers through PS8 PS10 out |
15 | 16 Lect 19: Designing Java |
17 |
April 20 Holiday |
21 Holiday PS11 out (on web) |
22 | 23 Lect 20: Non-determinism Drop Date |
24 PS10 due |
April 27 | 28 Lect 21: Register machines; robots on Mars PS12 out |
29 | 30 Lect 22: Explicit-control evaluator |
May 1 PS11 due |
May 4 | 5 Lect 23: Compilation non-PS13 out (prep for final) |
6 | 7 Lect 24: Image-guided neurosurgery |
8 PS12 due |
May 11 | 12 Lect 25: Quantum computing |
13 | 14 Last class Lect 26: The Halting Theorem |
15 |
May 18 Final exam: 1:30-4:30, Athletic Center |
19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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