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Readings

Here you will find a summary of the assigned readings for the semester, along with links to student responses to the readings. All readings are distributed in hardcopy format to encourage students to read actively and to bring the readings to class.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007: Alan J. Perlis: Epigrams on Programming
Monday, May 7, 2007: Ousterhout - Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century

Friday, May 4, 2007: Adobe Systems - PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
Wednesday, May 2, 2007: Power - Prolog Tutorials
Monday, April 30, 2007: Wilson - Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techiques

Friday, April 27, 2007: Chamberlin and Boyce - SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language
Wednesday, April 25, 2007: Codd - A Relational Model for Large Shared Data Banks

Friday, April 20, 2007: Luca Cardelli & Peter Wegner: On Understanding Types
Wednesday, April 18, 2007: Barbara Liskov et al. - Abstraction Mechanisms in CLU

Friday, April 13, 2007: Walton & Hibbs - Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited and Walton - Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited, Part 2
Monday, April 9, 2007: whytheluckystiff - A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes); Marick - Chapter 1 of A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects; and Marick - Chaper 2 of A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects

Monday, March 12, 2007: Sun Microsystems: Trail: The Reflection API

Friday, March 9, 2007: Bjarne Stroustrup: The Design of C++
Wednesday, March 7, 2007: Guy L. Steele, Jr.: Growing a Language
Monday, March 5, 2007: CS302 Students: Answers to Questions on Polymophism and Overloading

Friday, March 2, 2007: Christian Queinnec - The Influence of Browsers on Evaluators or, Continuations to Program Web Servers and Samuel Rebelsky - webcont.scm
Wednesday, February 28, 2007: Paul Graham - Scheme Continuations and R. Kent Dybvig - Continations and Continuation Passing Style
Monday, February 26, 2007: Paul Graham - The Roots of LISP

Friday, February 23, 2007: John McCarthy - Recursive Functions of Symbolic Epxressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I
Monday, February 19, 2007: Paul Graham - The Revenge of the Nerds, Paul Graham - What Made Lisp Different, and John McCarthy - History of LISP

Friday, February 9, 2007: Samuel A. Rebelsky - Points, Lines, and Images
Wednesday, February 7, 2007: Samuel A. Rebelsky - Higher-Order Graphics
Monday, February 5, 2007: Samuel A. Rebelsky - Scripting the GIMP with Script-Fu

Friday, February 2, 2007: C.A.R. Hoare - Hints on Programming Language Design
Wednesday, January 31, 2007: C.A.R. Hoare - Hints on Programming Language Design and Richard Gabriel - The End of History and the Last Programming Language
Monday, January 29, 2007: Edsger W. Dijkstra - Goto Considered Harmful and P. Bratley - Algorithm 306: Permutation with Repetitions

Friday, January 26, 2007: Barbara Ryder et al. - The Impact of Software Engineering Research on Modern Programming Languages and Ed Nather - The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Wednesday, January 24, 2007: Byte Magazine: A Brief History of Programming Languages, Wikipedia: History of Programming Languages, and Jean Sammet - Programming Languages: History and Future

Disclaimer: I usually create these pages on the fly, which means that I rarely proofread them and they may contain bad grammar and incorrect details. It also means that I tend to update them regularly (see the history for more details). Feel free to contact me with any suggestions for changes.

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