6.001 Spring 1998: Problem set 1

Issued: Tuesday, February 3
Tutorial preparation for: Week of February 9
Written solutions due in two parts:
1. ``Getting started'' assignment is due by email to your tutor and recitation instructor by the end of the weekend (i.e., before Monday morning, February 9)
2. Computer assignment is due in recitation on Friday, February 13

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 (including embedded links to the 6001 homework discussion forum).

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 xzvf 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 place in the psets directory a file called probsets.scm, together with a directory called ps1 that contains three files: fovnder.pgm, mix-sp98.pgm, and psgo.scm.

Special notes

If you are working in the 6.001 lab, and you are using Netscape at the same time as you are running Scheme, load the problem set (and create the graphics windows) before you start Netscape. Otherwise, the Scheme will fail when it attemps to draw, due to a fight with Netscape over the contents of the color map.

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