CIS 554 Home Page (Fall 2010)

CIS 554 Programming Paradigms
Fall 2010, David Matuszek

Order in which languages will be covered: Prolog, Erlang, [Ruby?], Clojure, Haskell, [Ruby?], Scala.

Meeting times
Lecture	MW 10:30-12:00	Towne 303
Office hours
	Whenever my door is open. Specific office hours: 3:00-4:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays	Moore 176
	Tuesdays 1:30-2:30	Greenberg Lounge, Skirkanich Hall 114
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Resources (Textbook and Software)
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Blackboard and Instructions for Using Zip Files and Blackboard
Google group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/cis-554-programming-paradigms
Google group email address cis-554-programming-paradigms@googlegroups.com

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Announcements

December 31, 2010

Grades have finally been posted. This was a great group! Thank you.

I have posted a page for myself at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2011/lessons-learned.txt. If you have a chance, I would like to get comments/suggestions on it, so that I can do a better job next year.

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Previous announcements

Date	Lectures, Assignments, etc.
Sept 8	Prolog 1 01-Prolog Text Adventure Game Spider game Prolog Starter Code
Sept 13	Prolog 2
Sept 15	Prolog 3 02-Star Tricked Logic Puzzle
Sept 20	Prolog 4 (Resolution) Four-Minute Guide to Resolution Conversion to Clause Form
Sept 22	Prolog Erlang 1 Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good Erlang: Number Personalities A Concise Guide to Erlang
Sept 27	Erlang 2 - lists spider.erl (compare to spider.pl)
Sept 29	Erlang 3 - Concurrency Erlang: Scattershot Curve Fitting
Oct 4	Clojure 1 (draft--subject to edits)
Oct 6	Erlang Clojure 2
Oct 11	Fall break
Oct 13	Clojure 3 Clojure Exercises Revenge of the Nerds Clojure: Functional Programming (short)
Oct 18	Clojure 4 -- Concurrency Can Your Programming Language Do This? (short) Functional Programming For The Rest of Us (long)
Oct 20	Clojure Clojure Sharks Starter Code for Sharks
Oct 25	In-class Clojure examples
Oct 27	Clojure concurrency cheat sheet Clojure REPL transcript (unedited)
Nov 1	Clojure Haskell 1
Nov 3	Land of Lisp: Functional Programming is Beautiful (A gut-level comparison of Clojure and Haskell) A Concise Guide to Haskell Haskell 2 Haskell Exercises
Nov 8	No class
Nov 10	Haskell 3 Haskell 4 Haskell 5 Haskell Animals Game
Nov 15	Scala Apologia Starting Scala
Nov 17	Haskell Scala Lists Scala Sudoku Easy Sudoku Puzzles
Nov 22	Scala is Functional Classes and Cases and Case Classes
Nov 24	Day before Thanksgiving. Unless someone insists, I will not hold class this day.
Nov 29	Scala Using Java Threads Scala Actors
Dec 1	More Scala Functions Concurrent Algorithms Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery... (Just came out; better late than never) Second Scala Assignment
Dec 6	Mostly code examples (Sudoku in particular)
Dec 8	Rebol
Dec 22, 9:00-11:00

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A PowerPoint document, usually one of my lectures	An assignment	Software that will be useful in this course
A tutorial	Additional information about the assignment or topic	Official specification; indicates offsite
An article; indicates offsite	Example	Quiz or exam