https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-18T15:13:36+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2023-04-12T02:55:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/teaching?rev=1681268159&do=diff Teaching General * Computer Science Educator's Hub First-year computer science * Program by Design - The computer science core of a liberal arts education * How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Programming and Computing * Racket - Includes the DrRacket programming environment * WeScheme - Web-based programming environment text/html 2025-12-20T05:25:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/past-courses?rev=1766208338&do=diff Past Courses Courses taught at Vassar College: (2006 - present) * CMPU-101 - Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Fall '06, '07, '10, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25 * Spring '07, '09, '14, '16, '19, '21, '23, '24, '25 text/html 2024-07-27T01:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/sidebar?rev=1722043052&do=diff Marc L. Smith * Home * Publications * Grants * Past courses * Concurrency * Teaching * Publicity * My Erdös Number * Academic Genealogy * PGP Information * Bio Vassar Content AskBanner OneLogin Reference EoS Time text/html 2026-01-21T06:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1768977290&do=diff Marc L. Smith (he/him) Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Department Vassar College Coordinates Office: SP 104.5 Voice: 845 437 7497 Zoom E-mail: mlsmith@vassar.edu Vassar College, Box 399 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 Spring 2026 * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ text/html 2020-05-01T18:13:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/infinite-trees?rev=1588356833&do=diff Infinite Trees 1 Motivation Up until now, we’ve mostly looked at trees as a data structure, but we haven’t looked at them in the context of any particular problems. Trees are used in many applications in computer science, robotics, and game design. One common application is for representing the possible moves in a game or search problem. Imagine that you were exploring the space that a player (character or robot) could move through. On each move, the player would change position (and possibl…