CIS 554 Programming Paradigms
Fall 2011, David Matuszek

What this course is about

Primary languages: Prolog, Rebol, Clojure, Scala. Probably mention: Erlang, Forth, Haskell, Perl, Ruby.

This syllabus is a work in progress--in other words, it can be changed at any time. Think of it as a rough draft.

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Date	Lectures etc.	Assignments
W Sept 7	Prolog Logic; resolution; sorites; Prolog without assert & retract; Logic puzzle assignment 1. A Concise Introduction to Prolog	Prolog Logic Puzzles
M Sept 12	Prolog More resolution; resolution practice problems
W Sept 14	Prolog; nonmonotonic logic, assert & retract Very skeletal adventure.pl, and spider.pl (right-click to save). Good Prolog site: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/cs9414/notes/prolog/ext-prolog.html	Prolog Adventure Game
M Sept 19	Prolog; Monty Python
W Sept 21 Add period ends F Sept 23	Prolog quiz; Erlang Erlang PowerPoint slides (extended slides on last year's CIS 554 site).	Quiz makeup: Erlang
M Sept 26	Rebol; assignment 3 Concise Guide to REBOL Concise Guide to REBOL/View	REBOL Flash Cards
W Sept 28	Rebol--stepping through an example. Prolog practice problems and solutions
M Oct 3	Rebol--maybe the parse command?
W Oct 5	Rebol quiz; Haskell
M Oct 10	Fall break; no class
W Oct 12 Drop period ends F Oct 14	Introduction to Clojure; Clojure assignment All About Recursion Concise Guide to Clojure (under construction)	Clojure exercises
M Oct 17	Clojure
W Oct 19	Java interoperability; macros	Clojure GUI DSL
M Oct 24	Clojure
W Oct 26 Family weekend F Oct 28	Scala
M Oct 31	Scala
W Nov 2	Clojure quiz; A lot of Scala in a hurry HelloWorld.scala, Buzz.scala, Pig.scala	Scala warm-up
M Nov 7	Concise Guide to Scala (under construction)	Scala Cryptograms
W Nov 9	Scala
M Nov 14	Scala
W Nov 16 Last day to withdraw F Nov 18	Scala The Scala Option Type
M Nov 21	First Scala quiz; Crash course in concurrent programming Concurrency 101 Understanding the Scala API	Book Indexing (two assignments in one) Proposed list of words to index I/O Examples
W Nov 23 Thanksgiving break Nov 25	Day before Thanksgiving; No class in CIS 554 (other courses may or may not meet)
M Nov 28	Scala
W Nov 30	Scala + Actors Understanding the Scala API Why Scala is less good than Java... Java Concurrency / Multithreading - Tutorial
M Dec 5	Scala+ Actors Understanding the Scala API
W Dec 7	Second Scala quiz: Moved. To give us a little more lecture time, I've decided to put a Scala section on the final exam (and make the rest of the final exam a bit shorter). Point distribution will remain the same. Also, a bit of Ruby.
M Dec 19, 9am-11am	Study Guide for Final Exam Final Exam, DRLB A4

Key
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