Office hours: Mon 2-3PM, Wed 11-Noon, and Thurs 2-3PM
Please feel free to set up an appointment with me if these times are inconvenient.

Textbooks: The Little Schemer, 4th edition, by Friedman and Felleisen
and Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi

Website: www.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/cosc3410/

Grading:

• 15% in class mid-term exam on Mon, Oct 14
• 20% Two hour final exam on Wed, Dec 11 at 10:30AM
• 65% Homework & quizzes

Late Homework Policy: Late homework submitted within 48 hours of the specified deadline will receive 80% of the grade it would have received on time. Homework more that 48 hours late, but less than one week (168 hours) will receive 50% of the earned grade. No assignments will be accepted more than one week late. If you submit part of an assignment on time and part late, only the late part will be discounted. (If you face extenuating circumstances, please talk to me as early as possible)

Topics include:

• Programming paradigms
• Scheme
• Expression evaluation
• FORTRAN
• Variable substitution
• User-defined functions
• Prolog
• Control structures
• Implementing recursion
• Erlang