Lesson Plan - 6.001 SP04 - recitation 1

Administrative Details:
section 4/6

Ben Vandiver (benmv)
grad student in course 6
did my undergrad at MIT also
varsity fencing team; like to juggle & read
CS interests in architecture, compilers, distributed systems

with Iuliu Vasilescu (iuliuv) or Murali Vajapeyam (murali)


lectures -
  register on the tutor!  (use athena username to make easier on TAs)
  online watch/listen BEFORE recitation (we can check)
  Lecture problems (due 9am of recitation day) - simple

Problem sets - due on Tuesday at 11:59pm - start early!

recitations - participation counts (show up! - more than physically)
  section switches -> Sharlene (sblake@mtl.mit.edu)
  recitation representatives

tutorials - with TA, small groups
  participation counts (show up!)
  tutorial switches -> your TA

projects - due friday, 6pm
  start early (they're long)
  collaboration policy

lab
  34-501 - inner combo 73745*
           outer combo 52730
  lab assistants - very helpful - schedule posted later (evenings)

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philosophy

class is about how to think / approach problems
try to tell you how I think about problems
get you to explain how you're thinking
point out patterns
more than the answer - process of getting answer more important
process of process development

interaction - pass the plunger
              whoever has the plunger answers, then pass
              say your name
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scheme - beautiful & simple

evaluator model  -> expression -eval-> value

VALUES
 numbers, string, booleans, lists, procedures, bitstrings, network sockets, ...
 how to get?

simple syntax: (stuff)

rules for evaluation - pretend to be the scheme evaluator
  follow the rules _stupidly_ - build intuition


self-evaluating
  numbers,strings, booleans

names
  name rule

combination
  rule!  be stupid!