6.001 Spring 98 -- Calendar

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
Spring Vacation
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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