INF 102 - Concepts in Programming Languages 2

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Synopsis

Purpose. Study of the multiple forms of expression in artificial computer-related languages.

Books and other resources.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Chapter 4. H. Abelson and G. Sussman with J. Sussman.
Alan Perlis' Epigrams in Programming.

Evaluation. Homework/lab projects (1/3) + Midterm (1/3) + Exam (1/3)

 

Master Sorceress: Prof. Cristina Lopes, ICS2 216, lopes at ics dot uci dot edu; Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11-noon.
Wizardry Assistants: Trung Ngo

Lectures: Tues & Thur 12:30-1:50p, CS 180
 


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Week Lecture Date

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Homework Readings / Notes
1 1 1/10 Course goals and description. Computer languages: diversity and categories. HW1: Brook's HOPL paper.
2 1/12 Playing with languages: the metacircular interpreter. Review of INF 101 in the context of metalinguistic abstraction. 4.1
2 3 1/17 The metacircular interpreter (cont). HW2
 
4.1
4 1/19 Functional programming languages. Scheme, Haskell, Ocaml. Strengths of functional programming style. OCAML tutorial
3 5 1/24 Declarative programming.  SQL.
Deductive data query in logic programming. The logic programming interpreter. 
  W3's SQL tutorial
SQL examples
6 1/26 4.4
qry-eval
4 7 1/31 The logic programming interpreter (cont). SQL revisited. HW3
8 2/2 No class.
5 9 2/7 Revision.  
10 2/9 Midterm
6 11 2/14 Aspect-oriented programming. The aspect interpreter. HW4 aspect-eval
12 2/16 The languages of the Web: Scripting and dynamic languages. JavaScript. JavaScript tutorial
7 13 2/21 The languages of the Web: Scripting and dynamic languages: Ruby.
 
HW5
hw5.rar
Pragmatic Ruby
Poignant Ruby
14 2/23 Ruby on Rails
8 15 2/28 The languages of the Web: Scripting and dynamic languages: Perl.  

Perl intro
Perl tutorial 2
Perl RE

16 3/2 The languages of the Web: Markup languages.
XML, XML-based langs.
XML tutorial
XSL: XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO
XQuery
9 17 3/7 Visual languages: Max, LabView.
Programs as structures: SubText
  Max/MSP
18 3/9 SubText
10 19 3/14 Modeling and specification languages.  
20 3/16 Revision.
  Friday 3/24 Exam starts at 10:30