Last updated 2009 December 3

Class Schedule

The class schedule is a guide to topics that will be discussed and when they will be discussed on a weekly basis. The week begins on a Thursday.

All slide sets are files. To save paper and ink, I suggest you do not print slides too far in advance and not before the course begins as changes may be made.

Week 1 --- September 10 & 15

Course overview. Using lisp interpreter, s-expressions, lists, atoms. Functions and scope of variables, conditional expressions, recursion , property lists

Week 2 --- September 17 & 22

Functional Programming, applying functions, defining functions to write functions.

Week 3 --- September 24 (Report 1 due) & 29

Functional programming, Lambda calculus

Week 4 --- October 1 & 6

Functional programming, Flexible functions, Macros

Week 5 --- October 8 (Report 2 due) & 20

Multiple value functions; Pattern matching

Week 6 --- October 22 (Class test 1) & 27

Database application, Start Prolog

Week 7 --- October 29 (Report 3 due) & November 3

Week 8 --- November 5 & 10

Prolog programming - utility predicates and accumulators

Week 9 November 12 (Report 4 due) & 17

Accumulators, Cut & not

Week 10 November 19 (Class test 2) & 24

Grammars

Week 11 November 26 & December 1

Defining operators, Resolution

Week 12 --- December 3 & 8 (Report 5 due)

Prolog examples programs. Review of topics and questions chosen by students

Subject to change