Classes

Here you will find links to various lecture notes, slides, and auxiliary code and links for each day, plus the daily homework assignments. These pages are also reachable from the main calendar.

Class 1: Introduction to Programming Languages
Class 2: Structures underlying evaluation
Class 3: More on evaluation
Class 4: Lambda
Class 5: Breaking the functional paradigm
Class 6: Efficiency in Scheme
Class 7: Specifying Syntax and Scanning
Class 8: Parsing: top-down, bottom-up
Class 9: Recursive descent and table-driven top-down parsing
Class 10: Shift-Reduce Parsing and CFSMs
Class 11: SLR Parsing
Class 12: Semantic Analysis I
Class 13: Names, scopes, lifetimes
Class 14: Nested Scopes and Declaration Order
Class 15: Implementing Scope in Function Calls
Class 16: Function Parameters and Polymorphism
Class 17: Lexical Scope with Closures and Frames
Class 18: Type Systems and Type Checking
Class 19: Garbage Collection
Class 20: Society and Security and Programming Languages
Class 21: More on Functions: Macros, Lazy Evaluation, Built-ins, and Operators
Class 22: Assignments: Variable model, l-values, clones
Class 23: For loops, iterators, and the dreaded go-to
Class 24: Modern PL Features: generics, generators, and scripting