CS 450: Structure of Higher Level Languages (Section 2)
Fall 2025
Past editions: Fall ‘24, Fall ‘23, Spring ‘23, Fall ‘22, Spring ‘21, Spring ‘20, Spring ‘19
Course information
- Location: W01-0004 (Wheatley)
- Schedule: Tuesday/Thursday 4:00PM - 5:15PM
Instructor contact
- Email:
Tiago.Cogumbreiro@umb.edu - Office hours: 10:00am - 11:00am Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday (in-person)
- Office location: (M03-0201-16) Room 0201-16, 3rd floor, McCormack
Class Schedule
Note: Any lecture titles in future dates are considered tentative.
| Date | # | Lecture | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🙙 1. Basic Functional Programming 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Sep 2 | 01 | Course info, arithmetic in Racket, evaluation | |
| Thu, Sep 4 | 02 | Branching and function definitions | |
| Tue, Sep 9 | 03 | Lists and code serialization | |
| 🙙 2. Advanced Functional Programming 🙚 | |||
| Thu, Sep 11 | 04 | Recursion, nested definitions | |
| Tue, Sep 16 | 05 | Modules, structs, (map) updating lists | |
| Thu, Sep 18 | 06 | Functions as data-structures, currying | |
| 🙙 3. Optimized Functional Programming 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Sep 23 | 07 | foldr, looping first-to-last | |
| Thu, Sep 25 | 08 | foldl, looping last-to-first | |
| Tue, Sep 30 | 09 | Homework help; tail-recursion | |
| 🙙 4. Lazy evaluation 🙚 | |||
| Thu, Oct 2 | 10 | TypedRacket, thunks, and promises | |
| Tue, Oct 7 | 11 | Infinite streams | |
| Thu, Oct 9 | 12 | Finite streams, evaluating expressions | |
| 🙙 5. Implementing function calls 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Oct 14 | 13 | Language λS: slow function calls | |
| Thu, Oct 16 | 14 | Language λE: fast function calls | |
| Tue, Oct 21 | 15 | Exercises | |
| 🙙 6. Implementing Racket's define 🙚 | |||
| Thu, Oct 23 | 16 | Specifying λD | |
| Tue, Oct 28 | 17 | Implementing λD | |
| Thu, Oct 30 | 18 | Exercises | |
| 🙙 7. Monads and side effects 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Nov 4 | 19 | Garbage collection | |
| Thu, Nov 6 | 20 | The state monad | |
| Tue, Nov 11 | (School closure) | ||
| Thu, Nov 13 | 21 | Loops and error monad | |
| 🙙 8. Abstraction 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Nov 18 | 22 | Monadic error; Monadic continuations | |
| Thu, Nov 20 | 23 | Parameters; Generic methods | |
| Tue, Nov 25 | 24 | Macros | |
| Thu, Nov 27 | (School closure) | ||
| 🙙 9. Object Oriented Programming 🙚 | |||
| Tue, Dec 2 | 25 | LambdaJS | |
| Thu, Dec 4 | 26 | JavaScript method and class inheritance | |
| Tue, Dec 9 | 27 | Conclusion | |
| Thu, Dec 11 | 28 | QA | |