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Lectures and Readings

The schedule on the following two pages shows the tentative schedule of topics to be covered at each class meeting during the semester. Consult this page regularly to see the most current version of the schedule of topics and readings. The on-line version of this schedule will be revised as the semester progresses.

I expect you to do the reading for a class before the lecture. I will not attempt to cover in lecture all the material in the readings. Instead my goal will be to cover the highlights or particularly difficult material. For this to work, you will need to already be familiar with the simpler aspects of the material. If you keep up your part of the bargain we should be able to have more interesting discussions in class, rather than just listening to me go over the text.

In the table below, M stands for the textbook by Mitchell.

Lecture

Date Topic Reading
1. Sept. 1 Preview and History M 1
2. Sept. 3 Computability; LISP M 2, 3
3. Sept. 6 LISP; Compilers, Interpreters, & Virtual Machines M 4.1
4. Sept. 8 Lambda Calculus M 4.2
5. Sept. 10 More lambda calculus
6. Sept. 13 Typed lambda calculus & functional languages M 4.4
7. Sept. 15 Haskell M 5
8. Sept. 17 More Haskell
9. Sept. 20 Even More Haskell Ch. 5 examples in Haskell
10. Sept. 22 Monads & Functional Languages Evaluation

Tackling the Awkward Squad::
monadic input/output, concurrency,
exceptions, and foreign-language calls
in Haskell, pp. 1-16

11.

Sept. 24 Data Types M 6.1, 6.2, & 6.5
12. Sept. 27 Type checking & inference M 6.3
13. Sept. 29 Type inference & Polymorphism M 6.4
14. Oct. 1 Lexing & Parsing
15. Oct. 4 More Parsing
16. Oct. 6 Semantics M 4.3
17. Oct. 8 More semantics
18. Oct. 11 More semantics
19. Oct. 13 Type safety Type Safety Handout
20. Oct. 15 Scala Scala talk, Associated Scala slides
Oct. 18 Fall Break

21.

Oct. 20 Run-time storage management M 7.1-7.2
22. Oct. 22 Functions, Procedures, & Tail Recursion M 7.3
23. Oct. 25 More run-time storage and access M 7.4-7.5
24. Oct. 27 Higher-Order Functions & Managing the Heap
25. Oct. 29 Heap & Control M 8.1-8.2
26. Nov. 1 Commands, Exceptions, & Continuations M 8.1-8.2
27. Nov. 3 Data Abstraction M 9.1-9.2
28. Nov. 5 Modules M 9.3-9.5
29. Nov. 8 ML Modules & Subtyping Subtypes chapter
30. Nov. 10 OOLs M 10
31. Nov. 12 OOLs: Simula & Smalltalk M 11
32. Nov. 15 C++ & Implementation M 12
33. Nov. 17 Java & Typing Issues M 13.1-13.4
34. Nov. 19 Java 5 generics & wild cards M 13.5
35. Nov. 22 More Scala
36. Nov. 24 Concurrency M 14.1
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving
37. Nov. 29 Actors in Scala M 14.2, Scala Actors
38. Dec. 1 Shared memory Concurrency: Semaphores & Monitors M 14.1, Concurrent Programming with Java2SE 5.0
39. Dec. 3 More Concurrency:Monitors & Ada Tasks M 14.4
40. Dec. 6 Concurrent ML M 14.3
41. Dec. 8 Concurrency & Summary


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