Welcome to CS61A!

My name's Jordy Rose, and I'm the TA for section 15 (TTh 3:30-5). Log in, relax, and enjoy the ride.

Office Hour: Fri 12:45-2:00. Remember, you can go to any TA's office hours to get help.

Discussion Problems

• Lambda (λ) and Recursion
• Concepts and practice for Iteration vs. Recursion and Orders of Growth - our discussion problems were taken from these two pages.
• Pairs, Lists, and Data Abstraction
• Practice with Trees
• Scheme-1 concepts
• Practice with data-directed programming (and a bit of message passing)
• Semi-practical thought puzzles in Object-Oriented Programming
• A step-by-step environment diagram, along with how to implement OOP using environments
• Mutation and Vectors.
• An overview of Client-Server Programming (explanation only)
• What does it mean to be correct? and a review of making concurrency safe.
• Practice with streams.
• The Metacircular Evaluator, and a review of lexical and dynamic scope.
• Breaking apart MapReduce.
• Working with the lazy evaluator.
• Understanding logic programming and the query system.

Useful Links

• Course Home
• Useful Unix Shell and Emacs Commands
• Animations explaining DEFINE and LET in terms of LAMBDA. Requires a pretty new version of QuickTime; click to continue.
• Lists vs. Sentences
• Environment practice with EnvDraw
• More practice with environment diagrams
• Vectors vs. Lists
• "To Evaluate", a song for the metacircular evaluator.
• All the Evaluators and What They're For
• Contact me: cs61a-tg@imail.eecs.berkeley.edu
• Contact our reader, Josh: cs61a-rg@imail.eecs.berkeley.edu

About Me

I am a Cocoa programmer at heart these days, working on cool and useful programs for the Mac. I am also an a cappella singer and a member of Theatre Rice. (For those who care, I am a fourth-year undergrad in the L&S CS program.)