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Schedule


This schedule is subject to change---check here frequently for updates.

The reading assignment for each date is to be done before class on that date.

VRH = The Van Roy and Haridi textbook

The first few lecture titles are linked to the lectures notes; for more recent lecture notes do an svn update. (Lecture notes will usually be made available in the repository on the morning of the lecture).
DATE LEC TOPIC TEXT READINGS HW
1/18 1 Organization, Overview, Getting Started      
1/22 2 Programming Concepts: Compound Values, Partial Values, Lists, Pattern Matching VRH Preface [Browse as you like], 1.1-1.9, Appendix A.1 for Mozart/Oz, Appendix B.1
TO DO: install Mozart on your PC
HW 1 out (in lecture notes)
1/25 3 Programming Concepts: Correctness, Complexity, Higher-Order Programming, Towards the Model VRH 1.10-1.18, 2.1 TO DO: install Subversion
1/29 4 Syntax Specification; Kernel Language Syntax VRH 2.2 & 2.3 [careful], 2.4 [browse]  
2/1 5 Semantics, Kernel Language, Computational Model VRH 2.4 [careful], 2.5 [browse]  
2/5 6 Abstract Machine VRH 2.4 [again] HW 1 due
2/8 7 Abstract Machine: Procedures, Lexical Scoping VRH 2.5 [careful] HW 2 out
2/12 8 Recursive Procedures and Last Call Optimization VRH 2.5 [again]  
2/15 9 From Kernel Language to Practical Language; Exception Handling VRH 2.6 [careful], 2.7 [careful]  
2/20 10 (Tues) Iterative Computations VRH 3-3.2, 3.4-3.4.2.6 HW 2 due
2/22 11 Higher-order Programming VRH 3.4.8 (Parsing), 3.6  
2/26   Midterm Exam      
3/1 12 Abstract Data Types VRH 3.7  
3/5   SPRING BREAK      
3/8   SPRING BREAK      
3/12 13 Declarative Concurrency: Threads, Data Flow, Streams VRH 4.1-4.3  
3/15 14 Lazy Evaluation VRH 4.4-4.5.3 HW 3 out
3/19 15 Demand-Driven Evaluation: RC-Circuit Example, auxiliary file: SimGraph.oz VRH 4.5  
3/22 16 Message Passing/Agents VRH 5-5.3  
3/26 17 Agents With State; Erlang VRH 5.4, 5.7  
3/29   No Class      
4/2 18 Explicit State VRH 6-6.3 HW 3 due
4/5 20 Reasoning with State; Object Oriented Programming VRH 6.6, 7-7.2  
4/9 21 Object Oriented Programming VRH 7.3-7.5, 7.7 HW 4 out
4/12 22 Active Objects VRH 7.8  
4/16 23 Relational Programming VRH 9-9.3  
4/19 24 Natural Language Parsing; Prolog VRH 9.4, 9.7  
4/23 25 Lambda Calculus (Medha Atre); Intel C++ Compiler Optimization (Yu Sheng & Jiao Tao); Foreign Language Support in Matlab (Christos Boutsidis)      
4/26 26 Foreign Language Support in R (Akintayo Holder); Distributed Programming: The Oz Model and the Google Model (MapReduce) VRH 11-11.6 HW 4 due
4/30 27 GUI Programming (Edward Levee & Andile Metfula); Review VRH 10  
5/9   Final Exam (Wed 11:30-2:30)      



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