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<h1>COMP 524, Spring 2008 - Lecture Notes</h1>
<p>Here I will post my lecture notes after I use them.</p>
<h3>Unit 1</h3>
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<tr><th>Date</th><th>Topics</th></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0110.html"><nobr>Thu Jan 10</nobr></a></td> <td>course expectations; why study programming languages, brief history of PL's, intro to Python</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0115.html"><nobr>Tue Jan 15</nobr></a></td> <td>Python: flow control, functions, built-in data structures, list comprehensions, modules, input & output</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0117.html"><nobr>Thu Jan 17</nobr></a></td> <td>Compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, preprocessors, etc. Tombstone diagrams. Bootstrapping a compiler - example with Pascal. Overview of compilation.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0122.html"><nobr>Tue Jan 22</nobr></a></td> <td>Lexical analysis, a.k.a. scanning: tokens, regular expressions (formal and practical), scanner implementation</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0124.html"><nobr>Thu Jan 24</nobr></a></td> <td>Context-free grammars: derivations, parse trees, syntactic and semantic ambiguity, precedence, eliminating left recursion</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0129.html"><nobr>Tue Jan 29</nobr></a></td> <td>Eliminating common prefixes, recursive descent parsers (with example)</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0131.html"><nobr>Thu Jan 31</nobr></a></td> <td>Scheme: basics, special forms, procedures, iterative processes and tail recursion</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0205.html"><nobr>Tue Feb 5</nobr></a></td> <td>Scheme 2: higher-order procedures, functions as first-class objects, anonymous functions, pairs, lists</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0207.html"><nobr>Thu Feb 7</nobr></a></td> <td>Scheme 3: lists and recursion, mapping over lists, trees, lists as conventional interfaces</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0212.html"><nobr>Tue Feb 12</nobr></a></td> <td>Names; binding; binding vs. object lifetimes; storage mechanisms (static, stack, heap) and object lifetimes; garbage collection</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0214.html"><nobr>Thu Feb 14</nobr></a></td> <td>Static and dynamic scope; symbol tables; closures; shallow vs. deep binding</td></tr>
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<h3>Unit 2</h3>
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<tr><th>Date</th><th>Topics</th></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><nobr>Tue Feb 26</nobr></td> <td>test review (no notes)</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0228.html"><nobr>Thu Feb 28</nobr></a></td> <td>Control flow: expression evaluation, sequencing, unstructured flow, selection, iteration & recursion</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0304.html"><nobr>Tue Mar 4</nobr></a></td> <td>Type systems: defining and using types; rules for inference, equivalence, and compatibility; casting and coercion</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0306.html"><nobr>Thu Mar 6</nobr></a></td> <td>Strong vs. weak typing; case studies on C-style arrays and strong typing in ML</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><nobr>Tue Mar 11</nobr></td> <td>No notes--spring break.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><nobr>Thu Mar 13</nobr></td> <td>No notes--spring break.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><nobr>Tue Mar 18</nobr></td> <td>No notes--class cancelled.</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0320.html"><nobr>Thu Mar 20</nobr></a></td> <td>Evaluation, with Pseudo-C example. Implementing namespaces and scope.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0325.html"><nobr>Tue Mar 25</nobr></a></td> <td>Introduction to Prolog: knowledge bases, queries, terms, variables, matching.</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0327.html"><nobr>Thu Mar 27</nobr></a></td> <td>Proof search, tic-tac-toe game, not operator.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0401.html"><nobr>Tue Apr 1</nobr></a></td> <td>Clarifying addendum to type systems (half lecture).</td></tr>
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<h3>Unit 3</h3>
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<tr><th>Date</th><th>Topics</th></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0410.html"><nobr>Thu Apr 10</nobr></a></td> <td>Classes as data abstraction; object-oriented paradigm; inheritance and initialization of objects; reference vs. value model; static vs. dynamic binding; polymorphism.</td></tr>
<tr class="tue"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0415.html"><nobr>Tue Apr 15</nobr></a></td> <td>Classes 2: member lookup; dynamic aspects of OO interpretation; generics (a.k.a. templates); function parameter passing.</td></tr>
<tr class="thu"> <td><a href="notes/notes-0417.html"><nobr>Thu Apr 17</nobr></a></td> <td>Python's parameter-passing semantics; Normal vs. applicative order in Scheme (enrichment: infinite streams)</td></tr>
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