CS450 information for students

Syllabus

Course notes

MacLennan's 19 principles of programming languages are reproduced here. My principle 20 is:

• Don't put a feature in a programming language that is seldom likely to be used, particularly if it makes the language or its implementation more cumbersome.

Bo Majewski has created a nice map of programming language origins.

Éric Lévénez has built a very nice list of programming languages with references and a chart.

First assignment

• IBM Fortran-II manual
• The Fortran examples from class.
• A Makefile to compile examples.
• The manual for Gnu Fortran. Many of its facilities go beyond Fortran II.

Second assignment

• The Pascal examples from class.
• Learn Pascal Tutorial
• Coronado Enterprises - Pascal Tutorial
• Khaan's Place - Turbo Pascal programming
• Solution to the assignment in Perl, to assist you in checking your answers.

Third assignment

• The third assignment is in Smalltalk.
• examples worked in class
• Gnu smalltalk manual

Fourth assignment

Some tutorials:

• examples worked in class
• Lisp tutorial that comes with CLisp
• An Introduction and Tutorial for Common Lisp
• LISP Primer
• On Lisp
• Practical Common Lisp
• a working Lisp evaluator (used for a programming assignment in CS655 to add deep binding).

Fifth assignment

Prolog examples worked out in class can be found here.

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