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Administrivia
• Nate's office hours, as usual: Wed 2-4
– Also, Nate will be in 105 North Gate next
Monday (May 9th); there is NO lecture, but
consider it office hours.
– Additional office hours will be announced on
the course portal, by TAs and Nate.
• The final survey is now available, on the
course portal:
– you NEED to do this, to receive a grade on
your project!
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The Final
• Final:
– Thursday, May 19, 5-8pm
– Bechtel Auditorium
• Final Review Session:
– Sunday, May 15
– Wozniak Lounge, Soda 430 (same every
time).
– Practice final in reader; check course portal
for additional resources
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Projections
• Checkoff #3 is the next lab. The TA will
run your code.
• Project is due at midnight on the day of
your lab, this Thursday/Friday. Yeah!
• Any questions about anything?
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So, what have we done in CS3?
• Consider the handout of topics
– Common topics
– Pre-recursion
– Recursion
– Higher order procedures
– Lists
– Case studies
– Working with large programs
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Another list…
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Functional programming
Functions as data
Recursion
Abstraction
Managing large programs
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Another list continued
1) Functional Programming
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All that can matter to a procedure is what it returns.
Small functions can be easily tested (isolated)
In other languages, you typically:
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Perform several actions in a sequence
Set the value of a global or local variable.
Print, write files, draw pictures, connect to the internet, etc.
Other "paradigms": sequential, object-oriented,
declarative
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Another list continued
2) Functions as data
– Higher order procedures will take functions as
parameters.
– It is useful to return functions
– Lambda is quite useful
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Another list continued
3) Recursion
– Linear (simple) to quite advanced
– In contrast to iteration and looping (where
counters or state define looping constraints)
• Knowledge of recursion will help these simpler
cases.
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Another list continued
4) Abstraction
– The big idea that is related to everything!
– A design practice that makes it possible to
carve up a problem, and therefore focus on
only part of it.
• Makes working collaboratively more efficient
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Another list continued
5) Managing large programs
– Style: commenting, naming conventions, etc.
– Abstraction: for maintenance and
collaboration
– Iterative testing
– Reading the specifications, and
communicating often with colleagues
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1. Functional programming
2. Functions as data
3. Recursion
4. Abstraction
5. Managing large programs
Slide 12
How are you going to study
for the Final?
Slide 13
The language Scheme
• Scheme allows you to ignore tedium and
focus on core concepts
• Other languages:
– Generally imperative, sequential
– Lots and lots of syntactic structure (built in
commands)
– Object-oriented is very "popular" now
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CS3 concepts out in the world
• Scheme/lisp does show up: scripting languages
inside applications (emacs, autocad, Flash, etc.)
• Scheme/Lisp is used as a "prototyping"
language
– to quickly create working solutions for brainstorming,
testing, to fine tune in other languages, etc.
• Recursion isn't used directly, but recursive ideas
show up everywhere
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SQL (structured query language for
databases) resembles HOFs
• query: “Tell me the names of all the lecturers who have
been at UCB longer than I have.”
select name from lecturers
where date_of_hire <
(select date_of_hire from lecturers where name =
'titteton');
• query: “Tell me the names of all the faculty who are older
than the faculty member who has been here the
longest.”
select L1.name from lecturers as L1 where
L1.age >
(select L2.age from lecturers as L2
where L2.date_of_hire =
(select min(date_of_hire) from lecturers) );
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