CSci 4651: PPL: Programming Languages - Resources.

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Resources

Resources will be added as the course progresses.

Required materials are marked in light green.

General resources

• Timeline of programming languages development.
• "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" - it is funny, and will be even funnier after completing this class.
• Robert 'Uncle Bob's' Martin's talk "The Last Programming Language" (July 2011 in London at Skills Matter)
• Jeanine Adkisson's Clojure/west 2015 talk Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure (a.k.a. "How do you know you have accidentally designed a language and what to do about it".
• Mark Bastian's Clojure/conj 2015 talk Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure.
• Wikipedia page for "Considered harmful" expression and Dijkstra's original Letter to the editor.
• StackOverflow discussion about adding goto in PHP 5.3.

Kernel language

• Oz language documentation
• Mozart: Oz interpreter
• Intro to the kernel language
• Pascal triangle
• Mutable memory in the kernel language
• Threads and concurrency in the kernel language
• Variable-to-variable binding, scope
• Atoms, strings, identifiers in Oz
• Partial values in Oz
• Dynamic and static scope of identifiers
• Procedure declaration; procedures as values
• Unification
• Procedure calls
• Examples
• Tail recursion (last call optimization)
• Exceptions
• Example for stack and variable store diagrams

Clojure

• Try Clojure: an online Clojure interpreter
• http://clojure.org/
• ClojureDocs: community-powered Clojure documentation and examples
• Light Table IDE and Its documentation
• Nightcode IDE
• First Clojure example
• Lazy sequences in Clojure
• Clojure recursion
• 4clojure.com is a collection of Clojure problems.
• Clojure style guide
• Let, apply, multi-arity functions
• Writing higher-order functions
• Clojure multithreading and mutability
• pmap (parallel map)
• Clojure reducers
• Examples of pmap and reducers
• Clojure transducers
• Examples of transducers
• Clojure macros, a chapter on Clojure macros in "Clojure for the Brave and True"
• Clojure closures

Ruby

• Installing Ruby (Windows users: use RubyInstaller)
• First Ruby examples
• Enumerable class has all methods that can be applied to enumerable containers (arrays, ranges, hashes, etc)
• Examples of using more enumerable methods
• Defining Ruby classes
• Ruby singleton class: defining methods on individual objects
• Ruby method dispatch: how Ruby looks for a method that is called on an object.
• Writing your own class that implements Enumerable methods.
• Ruby blocks vs lambdas.

C/C++

• In-class example: C++ type system, pointers, arrays
• Some C++ code examples, including:
  • Pointers
  • Arrays
  • Structures
  • A different C++ syntax for passing parameters by reference
• Dynamic memory allocation in C++ (malloc)
• In-class example: C++ functions and parameter passing
• Object-oriented features in C++
• Operator overloading in C++
• C++ tempalates

Java

• Java classes and interfaces
• Java bytecode viewer/editor (free, open source)
• A list of Java bytecode instructions
• Java iterators
• Subtyping in Java
• Java generics examples
• On Java generic types and functional features ("lambdas")

Javascript

• Introduction to Javascript

Concurrency

• Java threads example

Haskell

• https://www.haskell.org/ (downloads, documentation, etc.)
• Haskell examples
• Haskell types and type inference

Review

• Ruby review
• Javascript review