Tentative Schedule
| Tuesday | Thursday |
|---|---|
| 8/21 Introduction: Class Mechanics and Why study programming language theory?
Watch the first part of Go Programming session video from Google I/O (Google I/O is an annual software developer-focused conference held by Google, so is designed for people like you after graduation). Watch part of Walter Bright @ NWCPP: Advanced D Programming Language Features (NWCPP is the Northwest C++ Users Group, which has student members too) |
8/23 Classes cancelled due to Hurricane Lane |
| 8/28
Introduction to Programming Language Concepts
read Mira Balaban's Principles of Programming Languages (PPL for short) Introduction and ch. 1; we have permission from Professor Balban to use her lecture notes; if you find any errors/corrections, please let me know so that I can forward them to her. |
8/30 Intro to Common LISP |
| 9/4
Programming Language Syntax, Semantics
read PPL ch. 2 example code from class |
9/6 More LISP |
| 9/11
Abstraction on Data
read PPL ch. 3 example code from class |
9/13 Yet more LISP |
| 9/18
Evaluators for Functional Programming
read PPL ch. 6.1-6.2 (note out of order chapter) |
9/20 CLOS
example code from class |
| 9/25
Evaluators for Functional Programming (cont.)
read PPL ch. 6.3-6.4 (note out of order chapter) |
9/27 More CLOS
example code from class |
| 10/2
Delayed Evaluation
read PPL ch. 4 |
10/4 Intro to Prolog
example code from class |
| 10/9
Logic Programming
read PPL ch. 7.1-7.2 |
10/11 More Prolog
example code from class |
| 10/16
Logic Programming (cont.)
read PPL ch. 7.3-7.4 |
10/18 Yet More Prolog
example code from class |
| 10/23
Scripting Languages (not covered on Midterm)
read "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century" by John K. Ousterhout, IEEE Computer, 31(3) 1998, pp. 23-30, read "Are Scripting Languages Any Good? A Validation of Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl against C, C++, and Java" by Lutz Prechelt, Advances in Computers , 57 (Ed.: M. Zelkowitz), Academic Press, 2003, pp. 205-270. |
10/25 Review for Midterm |
| 10/30 Midterm Exam | 11/1 Intro to Python |
| 11/6 Election Day (no classes) | 11/8 More Python |
| 11/13
Type Correctness
read PPL ch. 5.1-5.3 |
11/15 Yet more Python |
| 11/20 Even More Python | 11/22 Thanksgiving (no classes) |
| 11/27
Type Correctness (cont.)
read PPL ch. 5.4-5.5 |
11/29
Imperative Programming
read PPL ch. 8 |
| 12/4
Conclusion: Techniques, Principles and Language Comparison
read PPL ch. 9 |
12/6 Review for Final Exam |
| 12/11 Comprehensive Final Exam 9:45-11:45 am in the same room as class, Holmes 243
(see UHM Office of Undergraduate Education Academic Schedule Final Exam- Fall for exam times for your other classes). |
No Classes (final exam period) |
David N. Chin / Chin@Hawaii.Edu