KSU CIS505: Programming-Language Paradigms

Fall 2010 Schedule

This schedule is approximate and subject to adjustment.
Week Instructor Monday Wednesday Friday
Aug 23 Ou Introduction (Slides)
Chapter 1: Grammar and operator tree (Slides)
No class Grammar and operator tree (cont'd)
Aug 30 Ou Grammar and operator tree (cont'd)
Assignment 1 Due: Sept. 7
Chapter 2, Part 1: interpreter for a C-like language (Slides) No class
Sept 6 Ou Labor Day, No Class. Interpreter for a C-like language (cont'd) Interpreter for a C-like language (cont'd)
Sept 13 Ou Assignment 2 Due: Sept. 20
Chapter 2, Part 2: interpreter for an object-oriented language (Slides)
Interpreter for an object-oriented language (cont'd) Interpreter for an object-oriented language (cont'd)
Sept 20 Ou Chapter 5, Abstraction, parameterization, and qualification (Slides) Chapter 5, Abstraction, parameterization, and qualification (cont'd) Wrap-up on Chapter 5.
Sept 27 Ou Chapter 6, From an assignment core to Java, Part 1. (Slides) Chapter 6, From an assignment core to Java, Part 2. (Slides) Wrap up the imperative paradigm.
Assignment 3 Due: Oct. 8
Oct 4 Amtoft Introduction to ML: Chapter 1; Section 2.1 (Slides) Types, Variables, Tuples: Sections 2.2-2.4.2 (Slides) Lists: Section 2.4 (Slides); Functions: Section 3.1 (Slides)
Oct 11 Amtoft Higher-order Functions, Currying, Polymorphism: selected parts of Sections 5.3-5.6 (Slides) Recursive Functions on Inductively Defined Structures: Sections 3.3 and 5.1 (Slides) Assignment 4 Due: Oct. 22
Map, Filter, and Fold: Sections 5.4&5.6 (Slides)
Oct 18 Amtoft Foldr and Foldl (Slides).
Discuss Assignment 4.
Lists for representing Sets and Association tables, cf. Section 5.3.4 (Slides). No class.
Assignment 4 due.
Oct 25 Amtoft Tail Recursion: Sections 3.2 and 3.5 (Slides). Finish Tail Recursion (Slides).
Discuss Assignment 4 solutions.
Continue Assignment 4 solutions.
Datatypes: Sections 6.1-2 (Slides).
Nov 1 Amtoft Assignment 5 Due: Nov. 13
Patterns and Local Definitions: Section 3.4 (Slides).
Functions on Trees: Sections 6.3-4 (Slides).
Finish Function on Trees (Slides).
Exceptions: Section 5.2 (Slides).
Start going through parser for Assignment 5.
Discuss the parser for Assignment 5, cf. Section 5.7.
Nov 8 Amtoft Dissuss upcoming Assignment 5 (revised) Solve "giving change" using exceptions (Slides).
Lazy Evaluation (Slides).
Nov 15 Amtoft Finish Lazy Evaluation (Slides).
Discuss Assignment 5 solutions.
Implement various sorting algorithms (Code).
Assignment 6 Due: Dec. 3
Manipulate and generate trees (Code).
Discuss Assignment 6
Nov 29 Ou Introduction to the logic paradigm. Slides. No class Prolog cont'd Slides.
Dec 6 Ou Side effect in Prolog. Slides.
Assignment 7 Due: Dec. 15
Q/A session (in Simon's office) Mozart playing Oz,
guest lecture by Waclaw Kusnierczyk
Slides.