Computer Science 340
Programming Languages

Fall 2023, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Grades are posted for Lab 2: More Python for Java Programmers [HTML] [PDF] and Problem Set 1: [PDF]
  • Wrap up Lab 3: BNF and Parse Trees as soon as you can
  • Problem Set 2: [PDF] due tonight.
• First exam in class one week from today (!)
  • just 10% of the final grade
  • all classes (up to Lecture 6), readings (up to Section 3.4), labs (up to 3), and problem sets (up to 2)
  • Some reading/writing of Python
  • terminology from the first 2 chapters and all of the questions we talked about at the end of the chapters
  • Grammars/BNF/derivations/etc.
  • more details coming Thursday
• Programming Language of the Day: Haskell
• Functional programming intro
• Haskell
  • today: looking through the first parts of the Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! introduction

Terminology

• purely functional programming language
• lazy evaluation
• static typing
• type inference

Examples

Examples will be added in the haskell-examples repository.