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Tentative Schedule, subject to change

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day
date
topic
notes
out
due
to do, comments
1
Wed
8/28
Introduction
 
 
2
Mon
--
no class
--
 
 
note: Labor Day
3
Wed
9/3
Introduction
 
 

read: sammet, Steele essay, WP article
view: Steele interview
seeAlso: Teach yourself...

4
Mon
9/8
History of PL
 
 
read: compilers, IDE, virtual machine, bytecode, PL Timeline, APL,
seeAlso: Worse is Better
5
Wed
9/10
Syntax HW2
HW1 

note: Last day to add class
read: BNF,
BNF examples, EBNF, ebnf.pdf, operator precedence,

6
Mon
9/15
Syntax
 
 
 

read: CFG, parsing, Chomsky hierarchy,
seeAlso:

7
Wed
9/17
Semantics
 
 
read: semantics, attribute grammar, operational semantics, denotational semantics, axiomatic semantics, Verification, proofs.pdf,
8
Mon
9/22
Semantics, Lexical scanning
  HW3
read: Regular expressions,
9
Wed
9/24
Lexical scanning,
04b,
 
 
note: Last Day to drop w/o 'W'
try: flex example
10
Mon
9/29
Parsing
 

read: compact guide to lex and yacc

11
Wed
10/1
scheme
 
HW3
do: download PLT scheme, and/or try mzscheme on gl
read: FP, What made Lisp different, Lisp FAQ, Scheme
read: Guide:1, Guide:2,
seeAlso: Teach yourself scheme
12
Mon
10/6
scheme
 
read: on using DrScheme
view: xkcd
13
Wed
10/8
scheme
 
 
read: Casting spels in Lisp,
view: xkcd
14
Mon
10/13
scheme
 
 HW4
read: Guide:3, Guide:4,
15
Wed
10/15
scheme
 
read: variable, scope, closure,
16
Mon
10/20
scheme closures
read: tail recursion, lazy evaluation, delay,
view: DrScheme v4 tour
17
Wed
10/22
scheme contol
 
   
read: crontol, continuation, call/cc, call/cc2,
18
Mon
10/27
mid term exam
 
 
19
Wed
10/29
Python
 
note: Guest lecture by Don Miner
read: Python,
explore: python.org
view: Python for Programmers (+ slides)
20
Mon
11/3
Python
HW6 
 
read: Python for Lisp programmers, Python idioms, PEP8,
view: xkcd,
21
Wed
11/5
Python

Python 2

 
 
note: last day to withdraw
read: Python datastructures, control,
view: Advanced Python (+ slides), xkcd
ex: wf?.py
22
Mon
11/10
Python
 
read: comprehensions, PEP202, classes, modules, stdlib
23
Wed
11/12
Python
 
 
read: Python regular expressions, regular expressions, piglatin, tfidf
24
Mon
11/17
Python OOP


 notes

HW7 
   
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Wed
11/19
Scheme in Scheme

scheme in scheme

 
 
read: SICP 4.1, MCE, spelling,
study: mce2.ss, jmc-lisp.ss,
25
Mon
11/24
SIP
 HW7
read: lexical analysis, intern, weak reference,
study: pyscheme1.6, pyscheme1.7,
26
Wed
11/26
SIP
 notes
read: recursive descent parser, CPS,
try: mycons.ss, fact.py
27
Mon
12/1
SIP

 notes

 
 
read: ltu, clojure, tramp
28
Wed
12/3
types, the rest
 
read: GVR, type system,
29
Mon
12/8
review
 
 
note: Last day of 331
view: 50 by 50 , py3k ,
--
Mon
12/15
final exam 6:00-8:00       study: old exams, answers