Last updated: Dec 3, 2021

This document will evolve through the semester. Looking forward it expessses a plan. Looking backward, it expessses what actually happened.

• Topic 1: Introduction
  What is "Programming Languages"
  • Text: Chapter 1.1
• Topic 2: Thinking about programming laguages
  
  • Text: Ch 1.2--1.4, 1.6.4
  • exclude text sections 1.5 and 1.6.-1.6.3
  • The end of history and the lst programming language, pg 111-123
  • The semi-colon wars
• Topic 3: The Go language
  • Various topics from "The Go Programming Language"
• Topic 4: Names, Scopes and Bindings
  • Scott: ch 3.1-3.3, 3.5-3.7
  • Exclude: "access to non-local objects" in 3.3.2; all material in grey boxes; all of section 3.4; 3.6.4 lambda Expressions; 3.7, 3.8
• Topic 5: Starting Sep 27 -- NOT on first midterm. Control Flow
  • Scott: 6.1-6.6
  • Dijkstra's critique of Goto
• Topic 6: Kotlin
  • Atomic Kotin: various sections 1-3
• Topic 7: Functional Programming
  • Scott: 11.1-11.2, 11.6
  • Also Atomic Kotlin section 4
• Topic 8: Type Systems
  • Scott: Ch 7
    skip 7.2.4, subrange types,
  • Week of Nov 8
• Topic 9: Composite Types
  • Scott: Ch 8 skipping 8.1.2, 8.1.3 and 8.2.2 (on Dope Vectors)
  • Week of Nov 15
• Topic 10: Subroutines
  • Scott: Ch 9, skipping 9.2, 9.3.1, 9.4.3 and 9.5
  • Week of Nov 22
• Topic 11: Object Orientation
  • Scott: ch 11
  • Not reached