Resources

Resources

Textbooks

Programming Language Pragmatics (PLP), by Michael L. Scott. Our main textbook.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. A Scheme-centric view of programming languages, used in first-year classes at MIT. Full text available online for free - and legally!
The Scheme Programming Language, by R. Kent Dybvig. A complete and readable Scheme reference. Also free online.

Unix lab machines you can log into.
Improve your life and nerd cred: install Ubuntu! (If you're not ready to cut the cord completely, consider using VirtualBox to have your cake and eat it too.)
Alternatively, install Cygwin. To use:
1. Start Cygwin's xserver with:
```
/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh -clipboard
```
2. Ssh to machine foo.cs.uns.edu like this:
```
ssh -Y mXXXXXX@foo.cs.usna.edu
```
  where, of course, mXXXXXX would be your login name. If your login name is the same on your bancroft PC and on the CS Department Unix boxes, you can just do: ssh -Y foo.cs.usna.edu
At this point, you should be able to copy and paste between Windows and Unix X-applications. Of course you need to use the Windows copy&paste commands in Windows applications and the X copy&paste commands in X applications.
DrScheme version 4.2.1. You can download DrScheme here - make sure you get the right version! (And ignore all the racket about Racket.)
The bison manual.
The flex homepage and the flex manual.

The Revised⁶ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS). The current official Scheme language standard.
PLT Scheme v4.2.1 reference. Official documentation for the version of Scheme and the interpreter we will be using.

Wikipedia's list of programming languages.
99 Bottles of Beer This Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song is represented in 1434 (and counting!) different programming languages and variations.
Guts: Lexical Analysis - The Perl Journal, Fall 1998. This is a nice informal discussion of some of the complexities in Perl's lexical analyzer. The interesting thing is that lexical analysis in Perl is context dependent; so that a "{" in one place is actually a different token than a "{" in another place. Most programming languages are not written that way. In case you feel I'm short-changing parsing, how about the yacc file (bison is gnu's version of yacc) for Perl: perl.y. Notice that it makes heavy use of associativity and precedence declarations so that the grammar itself stays simple. Yacc's shift-reduce parser uses these declarations to resolve parsing "conflicts", i.e. to make the parse tree unique.
Check out LOLCODE which is a programming language inspired by LOLCATS. Specifications 1.1 an 1.2 should pretty much make sense to you. There's flex scanner code and bison parser code if you dig a bit.
Lambda the Ultimate. A programming languages blog.