CIS505 Lecture Notes: Introduction to Programming-Language Paradigms

Here is a set of lecture notes meant to serve as a Programming Language Principles text. There are some rough edges here, but remember that I am saving you $100 that you would otherwise be spending for a textbook....

Week 1 Chapter 0: Introduction to language paradigms Chapter 1: Grammars, trees, and interpreters Week 2 Chapter 2: Two interpreter architectures for imperative languages Chapter 5: Component extension by abstraction, parameterization, and qualification Weeks 3-5 Chapter 6: The imperative paradigm: From an assignment core to Java Week 6 Chapter 7: The functional paradigm: From an arithmetic core to ML Weeks 7-8 example SML functions shown in class SML datatype of integer tree David Toman's SML tutorial Weeks 9-10 Chapter 8: The logical paradigm: From a boolean core to Prolog example Prolog programs | zipped folder of examples Week 11 Survey on computability and computational complexity Week 12 Chapter 9: Domain-specific languages

To come (subject to change):

Chapter 3: The core language and its characteristic domains

Chapter 4: Control and data-structure extensions