Learn Sophie (by Example)

Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to learn Sophie. She’s a little different from what the average coding boot-camps are teaching these days, but vive la différence! I hope she gives you a new perspective on CS.

Contents:

• Why Learn (with) Sophie?
• First Things First
  • A Programming Language?
  • Initial Preparations
  • Your First Program in Sophie
• Functions: How Sophie Calculates
  • Super-Fancy Calculator
  • Define your own!
  • More Fun with Functions
• Apples, Oranges, and Mixing Them
  • Introducing the Type Checker
  • Checking Programs Without Running Them
  • How to Influence Type-Checking
  • More Apples and More Oranges
• Making Decisions (Conditional Forms)
  • Case Study: Age Classifier
  • Case Study: Improved Root-Finder
  • Wrapping Up
• Interlude: Seven Moving Parts
• Fantastic Lists and Where to Find Them
  • Case Study: Music Archive
  • Case Study: Fibonacci Numbers
  • The built-in list-processing functions
• Turtle Graphics
  • Case Study: Simple Designs
  • All the turtle-y things
  • Case Study: Color Spiral
• Let’s Play a Text Game!
  • Guided Tour of the Game
  • The Full Game
  • Concluding Remarks
• Syntactic Sugar
  • Anonymous Functions
• Modules: Programming in the Large
• Congratulations