Collaborative Content
By taking this course, you will learn how to participate in interdisciplinary collaborations that depend on the techniques and results of computer science. Over the course, we will develop three important kinds of programs through hands-on case studies: an interpreter for a programming language; a web interface to a database; and a reinforcement-learning agent capable of perception, deliberation and action. We'll also present some of the theoretical background computer scientists use to understand such programs precisely - including representation, complexity, and computability - and introduce the history and culture of the field.
Course Information
Technical Discussion
Practice exercises on lists and structures
Practice with interpreters and state
Benchmark problems on production rules (first part posted)
Additional Resources
Get started with Scheme
Visualize computational mechanisms
Sample Programs
Sample web applications from class and recitation
Show the IP address of the requesting client- Request two numbers and add them together
- Add two numbers that are passed to the script
- Ken's example to explain how control works in web pages
A web site that asks for input, saves it, and summarizes it
Sample algorithm code
Learning example
- Scheme code
- Mushroom database
- Votes database
- Running these examples requires you to install a couple libraries: You can actually do this over the web. Invoke the File > Install .plt file… menu option in DrScheme. You will be prompted to enter a web address for the PLT archive you want. The first time, enter http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mdstone/class/503/ssax.plt then (once the installation is complete), invoke the same menu option again and enter http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mdstone/class/503/sxml.plt (you can cut and paste!).