CS 355 - Fall 2023: Schedule

Weekly Schedule

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

Wk	Date		Plan
1	08/29	Tue	Overview: Language Features, "Paradigms"
	08/31	Thu
2	09/05	Tue	Syntax, Semantics, Parsing, & Interpretation
	09/07	Thu
3	09/12	Tue	Functional Programming Recursion First-class functions Lexical scope / closures Callback functions Lambdas / anonymous functions Currying / partial application
	09/14	Thu
4	09/19	Tue	Exam 0
	09/21	Thu	Functional Programming (cont.)
5	09/26	Tue
	09/28	Thu
6	10/03	Tue	Exam 1
	10/05	Thu	Types & Typing Static vs Dynamic Type inference Union types Algebraic datatypes Pattern matching
7	10/10	Tue
	10/12	Thu
8	10/17	Tue
	10/19	Thu
9	10/24	Tue	Memory Management & Safety Manual Reference counting Tracing garbage collection Rust's ownership model
	10/26	Thu
10	10/31	Tue
	11/02	Thu
11	11/07	Tue	Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Inheritance Interfaces, traits, mixins Generics, polymorphism
	11/09	Thu
12	11/14	Tue	Exam 2
	11/16	Thu	Object Oriented Programming (cont.)
13	11/21	Tue
	11/23	Thu	Thanksgiving Break
14	11/28	Tue	Application Styles Asynchronous Reactive Backtracking Lazy
	11/30	Thu
15	12/05	Tue	Evaluating & Choosing Languages
	12/07	Thu
16	12/14	Thu	10:15am-12:15pm — Final exam period (moved)
	12/15	Fri	10:15am-12:15pm — [original final exam period]