Course Readings
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Weekly Readings
- Week 0: Environment Model
- Week 1: Functions
- Week 2: Flood Fill
- Week 3: Graph Search
- Week 4: Recursion
- Week 5: Recursion and Iteration
- Week 8: Backtracking
- Week 9: Custom Types and the Environment Model
- Week 10: Inheritance and Object-oriented Design
- Week 11: Functional Programming
Additional General-Purpose Readings
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.
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