Com S 342 --- Principles of Programming Languages

		      EXERCISE 03: EXAM 1 REVIEW
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The purpose of this exercise is to review for exam 1.
See $PUB/exam-study-guides/exam1-topics.txt for more about this exam.

As with all exercises, this is to be done individually.  And it is due
the day this topic is planned to be discussed in class, unless
specified otherwise (see the syllabus at:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs342/syllabus.shtml).

We expect this to help you think about the readings (see below).
If you don't have an answer or an answer that you think is good,
write down what you read, and a question or two that would have helped
you make progress.   Then you can ask that question in class;
there will be other people with the same problem, and everyone can
learn by discussing these issues.  And you'll most likely see similar
things on the homework, so it's best to understand them now.


READINGS:
Read chapters 1-5 of the "Little Schemer" (4th ed., 1996) by Friedman and
Felleisen.  Read chapter 1  Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs, by Abelson and Sussman, which is on reserve and also on-line
at the following URL

     http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

For a reference on Scheme,
see the Revised^5 Report on Scheme, which is available in several
formats from the course resources web page.
Read a discussion of the design goals of Java on the web at the URL:

     http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/

1. [Exam review]

As a practice for the exam, take, on paper, the old exam from Spring
2004, found from the course exams page or directly from

     http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs342/old-exams/Spring04/exam1.pdf

or in $PUB/old-exams/Spring04/exam1.pdf .

However, you should skip problem 4 on this exam, as it's not relevant
this year.

WHAT TO HAND IN

You should have at the beginning of class, written answers for the
above questions (or written out questions and problems you encountered
for each part).  Make sure your name is on these. Attach the
printouts, if any, requested above.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

If you have time, there are other old exams available from the course
exams web page.  You can also read chapters 6-8 of the "Little
Schemer" (4th ed., 1996) by Friedman and Felleisen, and chapter 1,
sections 1.1-1.2 of "Essentials of Programming Languages" (2nd ed.,
2001), by Friedman, Wand, and Haynes.