CS 355 - Fall 2025: Schedule

Weekly Schedule

This is a tentative schedule of course topics and class periods, and it is subject to change.
Refer to Canvas for up-to-date details.

Wk	Date		Plan
1	08/25	Mon	Overview: Language Features, "Paradigms"
	08/27	Wed
	08/29	Fri
2	09/01	Mon	Labor Day
	09/03	Wed	Syntax, Semantics, Parsing, & Interpretation
	09/05	Fri
3	09/08	Mon	Functional Programming; OCaml Recursion First-class functions Lexical scope / closures Callback functions Lambdas / anonymous functions Currying / partial application
	09/10	Wed
	09/12	Fri
4	09/15	Mon
	09/17	Wed	Exam 0
	09/19	Fri	Functional Programming (cont.)
5	09/22	Mon
	09/24	Wed
	09/26	Fri
6	09/29	Mon	Exam 1
	10/01	Wed	Types & Typing Static vs Dynamic Type inference Union types Algebraic datatypes Pattern matching
	10/03	Fri
7	10/06	Mon
	10/08	Wed
	10/10	Fri
8	10/13	Mon
	10/15	Wed
	10/17	Fri	Fall Break Day
9	10/20	Mon	Memory Management & Safety Manual Reference counting Tracing garbage collection Rust's ownership model
	10/22	Wed
	10/24	Fri
10	10/27	Mon
	10/29	Wed
	10/31	Fri
11	11/03	Mon	Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Inheritance Interfaces, traits, mixins Generics, polymorphism
	11/05	Wed
	11/07	Fri
12	11/10	Mon	Exam 2
	11/12	Wed	Object Oriented Programming (cont.)
	11/14	Fri
13	11/17	Mon
	11/19	Wed	Application Styles Asynchronous Reactive Backtracking Lazy
	11/21	Fri
14	11/24	Mon
	11/26	Wed	Thanksgiving Break
	11/28	Fri
15	12/01	Mon	Evaluating & Choosing Languages
	12/03	Wed
	12/05	Fri
16	12/10	Wed	3:30-5:30pm — Final exam period