| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Weekly materials |
Notes |
| 1 |
3/29 |
Historical Overview of PLs |
Book chapters: 1, 2
1. Turing's Machine
2. von Neumann's architecture
3. Forth
|
Intro |
| 3/31 |
Turing Machines
Imperative
|
| 2 |
4/5 |
Basics of PLs: control flow, procedures, functions, expressions, statements, side effects, libraries |
Book chapters: 4, 5, 6, 7
1. Dijkstra's GOTO Considered Harmful
2. McCabe's Complexity metric
3. Dijkstra's Notes
4. Global Variables considered harmful
5. Church's Lambda Calculus
6. LISP (*)
7. Stratchey's lectures -- semantics
8. Backus' case for functional programming
|
Procedures & Functions |
| 4/7 |
Lambda Calculus
Lambda in Python
lambda.py
|
| 3 |
4/12 |
Function Composition |
Book chapters: all of part III
1. Dijkstra's Recursive Programming
2. The discoveries of continuations
3. Moggi's Monads
4. Wadler's The essence of functional programming (*)
|
Function Composition
|
| 4/14 |
Monads
Function Objects
|
| 4 |
4/19 |
Objects and Object Interactions
OO Frameworks
|
Book chapters: all of part IV
1. Simula
2. Smalltalk (*)
3. Self
4. ADTs
5. Inversion of Control in Smalltalk
6. Fowler's Inversion of Control
7. The information bus
|
OOP
|
| 4/21 |
JavaScript
Frameworks
|
| 5 |
4/26 |
Reflection and Metaprogramming
|
Book chapters: all of part V
1. Reflection and Semantics in LISP (*)
2. Concepts and Experiments in Computational Reflection
3. Reflection in logic, functional and OO programming
4. Aspect-Oriented Programming
5. Aspects as latent topics
6. Conic
7. Fowler's Dependency Injection
|
Reflection |
| 4/28 |
Plugins
|
| 6 |
5/3 |
Concurrency |
Book chapters: all of part VIII
1. Actors (*) -- Chapter 3 only
2. Linda
3. MapReduce
|
Concurrency I |
| 5/5 |
Concurrency II |
| 7 |
5/10 |
Data-centric: relational model, spreadsheets, reactive, dataflow. Iterators and generators. |
Book chapters: all of part VII
1. Codd's Relational Model for data banks (*)
2. A Brief History of Spreadsheets
3. Coroutines
4. CLU's "iterators"
|
SQL / Spreadsheets |
| 5/12 |
Iterators, Generators, Coroutines |
| 8 |
5/17 |
Array Programming |
Book chapters: 3
1. Iverson's A Programming Language (APL)
|
Arrays
|
| 5/19 |
|
| 9 |
5/24 |
Neural Networks
|
Book chapters: all of part X
1. McCulloch and Pitts
2. Hebb's The Organization of Behavior
3. Rosenblatt's Perceptron
4. Backpropagation
|
Neural Nets |
| 5/26 |
|
| 10 |
5/31 |
Neural Networks
Recap |
|
|
| 6/2 |
Wrap up |
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