6.101Course Readings
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Weekly Readings
- Week 0: Introduction
- Week 1: Environment Model
- Week 2: Fun With Functions
- Week 3: Flood Fill
- Week 4: Graph Search
- Week 5: Recursion
- Week 7: Recursion and Iteration
- Week 8: Recursion with Backtracking
- Week 9: Custom Types
- Week 10: Inheritance
- Week 11: Functional Programming
Additional General-Purpose Readings
Extra Practice Problems
- Trade Relations
- Tile Puzzle Solver
- Refactory
- Nesting
- Pigeons
- QuadImage
- Match
- Boolean
- Loopless
- Refactoring Tutor
License and Acknowledgements
The 6.101 course readings were collaboratively written by the 6.101 staff. Except where otherwise noted, they are licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license. Portions of the notes were derived from or inspired by the 6.031 Course Notes, the 6.145 Course Notes, and the 6.01 Course Notes