About Me

Professor Craton

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Introductions

• Name
• What are you hoping to learn from this class?

Syllabus

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Quizzes

• Given regularly at beginning and end of class
• Should be easy for you
• Allow me to confirm that everyone is keeping up with course material

Introduction

• 1.1 - 1.3 Why programming languages?
• 1.4 - 1.6 Compilation vs Interpretation

Foundations

• 2.1 - 2.2 Lexing (aka Tokenizing, Scanning)
• 2.3 - 2.5 Parsing - ASTs, Language Hierarchy
• 3.1 - 3.2 Binding and Lifetime
• 3.3 - 3.6 Scope and Closures
• 5 - Target Machine Architecture

Language Design

• 6 - Control Flow
• 7 - Type systems
• 8 - Composite Types
• 9 - Subroutines and Control Abstraction

Programming Paradigms

• 10 - Object Oriented Programming (Python)
• 11 - Functional Programming (JS)
• 12 - Declarative Programming (SQL)

• You will need access to an x64 Debian-based Linux system for several of the assignments in this class
• This can be installed directly on most laptops, or you can run it in a VM
• We’ll cover VM setup in the first lab