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-# CS-210 Material
+This repository will be used as the website for Functional Programming CS-210. It will be updated weekly throughout the semester. This README contains general information about the class.
 
-* [Moodle Page](https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=14257)
+- [previous-years-exams](https://gitlab.epfl.ch/lamp/cs210-material/week1/tree/master/previous-years-exams) contains PDFs for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 exams.
+- [recitation-sessions](https://gitlab.epfl.ch/lamp/cs210-material/week1/tree/master/recitation-sessions) contains markdown documents for recitation sessions and solutions.
+- [slides](https://gitlab.epfl.ch/lamp/cs210-material/week1/tree/master/slides
+) contains the slides presented in class.
+
+We will use GitLab's issue tracker as a discussion forum. Feel free to [open an issue](https://gitlab.epfl.ch/lamp/cs-210-functional-programming-2019/issues/new) if you have any comments or questions.
+
+During the first week of the semester, you should will this Doodle to register to the recitation sessions:
+
+<TODO Nico?>
+
+Also make sure to read the instructions to install Git and Scala on your machine, which is be needed to complete the projects:
+
+<TODO Guillaume/Timothée?>
+
+## Grading
+
+The grading of the course is divided between projects (30%), a midterm (30%), and a final exam (40%) held during the last week of courses.
+
+## Staff
+
+| Role        | People |
+| :---        | :--- |
+| Professors  | Martin Odersky, Viktor Kunčak |
+| TAs         | Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki, Guillaume Martres, Nicolas Stucki, Olivier Blanvillain, Periklis Chrysogelos |
+| Student TAs | Artur Vignon, Haley Owsianko, Paul Renauld, Thomas De Chevigny, Timothée Floure |
+
+## Rooms
+
+Live lectures take place on Wednesdays from 13:15 to 15:00 in CO 2. Recitation sessions take place on Fridays from 10:15 to 12:00, where the room assignment is according to the Doodle linked above. Project sessions are held concurrently to the recitation sessions in CO 021.
+
+## Lecture Schedule
+
+| Week | Date        | Topic                  |
+| :--  | :--         | :--                    |
+| 1    | 18.09.2019  | Intro class            |
+| 2    | 25.09.2019  | Recursion              |
+| 3    | 02.10.2019  | Function values        |
+| 4    | 09.10.2019  | Classes                |
+| 5    | 16.10.2019  | Symbolic computations  |
+| 6    | 23.10.2019  | Collection             |
+| 7    | 30.10.2019  | Structural induction   |
+| 8    | 06.11.2019  | Monads                 |
+| 9    | 13.11.2019  | State                  |
+| 10   | 20.11.2019  | Constraints            |
+| 11   | 27.11.2019  | Lambda calculus / Lisp |
+| 12   | 04.12.2019  | Scheme interpreter     |
+| 13   | 11.12.2019  | Prolog                 |
+| 14   | 18.12.2019  | Review                 |
+
+## Project Schedule
+
+| Title                | Start Date | Due Date (at noon) |
+| :--                  | :--        | :--                |
+| Recursion            | 18.09.2019 | 26.09.2019         |
+| Functional Sets      | 25.09.2019 | 03.10.2019         |
+| Object-Oriented Sets | 02.10.2019 | 10.10.2019         |
+| Huffman Coding       | 09.10.2019 | 24.10.2019         |
+| Anagrams             | 16.10.2019 | 31.10.2019         |
+| Bloxorz              | 23.10.2019 | 07.11.2019         |
+| Quickcheck           | 30.10.2019 | 14.11.2019         |
+| Calculator           | 13.11.2019 | 28.11.2019         |
+| Interpreter          | 27.11.2019 | 18.12.2019         |
+
+## Exam Schedule
+
+The midterm exam will take place on Friday 08.11.2019 from 10:15 to 12:00.
+The final exam will take place on Friday 20.12.2019 from 10:15 to 12:00.
+
+Information about exam organization will be communicated by email a few days before each exam.