Study guide for Prelim 1
Phillip G. Bradford
Phillip.bradford@uconn.edu
2019-10-02
1. All exams are closed-book, closed-notes, No computer, no calculator and no other electronic equipment for use with the exam.
2. There will be at least two versions of the exam.
3. A key focus is on questions based on the labs and problem sets.
4. Coverage
a. Scheme functions
b. Functional style programming
c. Recursion
d. How the Scheme interpreter works
e. Scheme environments
f. Evaluation and apply
g. Substitution semantics
h. Scope, let and lambda
i. Recursion and pending evaluations
j. First class treatment of functions
k. Tail recursion