CS411: Languages

Notes for 10/13/2004

Please go through the files StateModification.scm and Currying.scm and master the examples provided there. A homework on this material will be available forth with. The emphasis is on working together to understand the material so please work together in class time and help each other out. Don't just take a cursory look at the samples, run the code, change the code understand the code. Then you shall be one with the lambda. A start on the homework is available below. I will be avalible on IM during most of our class time.

Resources

Free Smalltalk books. In addition to the required "The Joy of Smalltalk" (JOS) I also recommend "Smalltalk with Style". to get a informed on the typical Smalltalk programming practices.
Cincom Smalltalk home. Go there to download VisualWorks.
There are lots of other variants of Smalltalk (besides VisualWorks, that is). Have a look at Why Smalltalk? or my Smalltalk pages as a starting point for finding out more.
The SmaCC parser generator home page. SmaCC is included with VisualWorks so you do not need to download it. See especially the tutorial and the reference docs on the scanner and the parser.
The Dr. Scheme home page
The SWI-Prolog home page
The MPICH home page especially the HTML man pages

Homeworks

JOS = "The Joy of Smalltalk", see free book links above

Homework number	Due date	Material to read	Problems
1	9/3/2004	Paul Graham's Beating the Averages and Revenge of the Nerds
2	9/6/2004	JOS chapters 1 and 2	JOS Exercise 1 p17, 1-3 p20, 1-3 p23, 1-10 p25, 1-8 p28-29, 1-3 p31, 1-3 p33
3	9/13/2004	JOS chapters 4, 5 and 9	I recommend that you go through as many of the exercises as you can stand
4	9/17/2004	JOS chapters 6, 7 and 8	I recommend that you go through as many of the exercises as you can stand
5	9/22/2004	Textbook chapters 1 and 2	Textbook 2.1-7, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11
6	10/6/2004	Annotated version of McCarthy's original LISP paper	Homework questions
7	10/8/2004		Scheme worksheet to be handed out in lab
8	10/15/2004	StateModification.scm Currying.scm	CurryingAndDestructive.pdf (last updated 10/13 13:34)
9	10/20/2004	Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme chapters 1-3	Homework questions
10	10/20/2004		SchemeLab1.pdf SchemeLabCode.st
11	10/27/2004		SchemeLab2.pdf
12	11/5/2004		SchemeLab3.pdf
13	11/12/2004		SchemeLab4.pdf
14	11/10/2004		Prolog programs
15	11/19/2004		SchemeLab5.pdf
16	huh?		SchemeLab6.pdf, you may want to use LISPBinding.st
17	Let's quit kidding ourselves here		SchemeLab7.pdf
18	12/15 @ 2pm (our final exam period)		SchemeLab8.pdf -- the last one

Projects

Project number	Due date	Description	Resources
1	9/20/2004	Project1.pdf	CS411Graphs.pcl CS411Graphs.pst
2	9/29/2004	Project2.pdf
3	11/1/2004	Project3.pdf
4 (final project)	12/18/2004 (by noon)	Project4.pdf

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