Downloading Problem Sets

MIT 6.001, Fall 1997

Downloading Problem Sets

In order to do the problem sets, you should be able to just download the zip file from the problem set page, extract its contents using a program like WinZip, extract the files into C:\U6001 (your home directory), and then start up MIT Scheme/Edwin, and use the M-x load-problem-set command. However, if you have problems, or if you are curious, here are some more details.

When you installed MIT Scheme, it created a special directory, or "folder", c:\U6001, that contains:

A directory called "psets".
- In the psets directory, you should end up with one subdirectory for each problem set, named "ps1", "ps2", and so on. When you type M-x load-problem-set, Edwin looks in these directories for the files that you got from the web page.
- In the psets directory, you should also have a file named "probsets.scm". Every time you download files from the web site, a new copy of this file is downloaded, and overwrites the old one. For each problem set, this file tells edwin which files to load and which files to evaluate when the user does M-x load-problem-set.
A directory called "Work". This is a convenient place to put your own work, or to keep modified versions of files we provided without overwriting the originals.