Re: Setup Reminder & Other Matters

Dear CSCI-316 Students,

After you have completed the exercises in the Preliminary-Lisp-Exercises document, you should start to do the reading and exercises specified in items (1)-(4) below. Note that 1b, 2b, 2d, 3a, and 3d refer to parts of Lisp Assignment 1 (which is posted in the Assignments section on Brightspace), and that 1a and 1b should be done before we meet for our 6th class on Wednesday of next week (9/17).

See you in class on Monday.

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Pages of Touretzky to Read; Exercises to Do

Before our 6th class (Wednesday, Sep. 17)

• Read secs. 2.1-2.8 on pp. 31-41.
• Do parts A and B of Lisp Assignment 1.

Before our 7th class (Monday, Sep. 29)

• Read secs. 2.9-2.14 on pp. 41-64.
• Do part C of Lisp Assignment 1.
• Read secs 3.7-3.10 on pp. 86-90.
• Do part D of Lisp Assignment 1.
• Read sec. 2.17 on pp. 72-73.
• Read secs. 6.3 and 6.4 on pp. 161-65.*

Before our 8th class (Monday, Oct. 6)

• Do part E of Lisp Assignment 1.
• Read sec. 3.17 on p. 104.
• Read sec. 5.3 on pp. 138-40 (pp. 138-39 in the free older edition).
• Do part F of Lisp Assignment 1.
• Reminder: Wednesday, Oct. 8 is the on-time submission deadline for Lisp Assignment 1.

Before or soon after our 9th class (Wednesday, Oct. 8)

• Do Lisp Assignment 2 and submit that assignment on mars; the on-time submission deadline for Lisp Assignment 2 is Friday, Oct. 10.

Note on APPEND

Although the calls of APPEND in 6.3 have only 2 arguments, APPEND accepts any number of arguments! For example:

(append '(1 2 3) '(5 6) '(7 8 9 10) '(11))

returns (1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11).

Note on SDRAW Functions

The function SDRAW that is mentioned at the end of sec. 6.4 and the related functions SDRAW-LOOP and SCRAWL are described on pp. 186-187. These functions are available to you on mars when you start Clisp using the cl command.

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Dr. T. Yung Kong
Professor
Computer Science Department
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing, NY 11367, USA