CIS 554 Resources
Spring 2010, David Matuszek

Textbook

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce A. Tate The paper book will not be available until September 15, but you can get it now as an e-book at http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks. The e-book alone is $22 and the e-book + paper book is $43.75. You can supplement the book with readings and tutorials from the web. A number of these are listed below, generally with the most important ones first.

General

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

(In author's view, "writing Fortran" = "writing bad programs")
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039535

Revenge of the Nerds

(How languages are becoming more Lisp-like)
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

The Theory and Practice of Concurrency (600 pages)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comlab.ox.ac.uk%2Fbill.roscoe%2Fpublications%2F68b.pdf&ei=fM7uS77XDIT78Ab6x9D9Cg&usg=AFQjCNEIgpQyEtBndLXhQMp-J102CatdqQ&sig2=qGULMDlXJPp8aKAEBj8nZw (PDF)

Java, Don't Make Long Term Plans

http://blog.borud.no/2010/10/java-dont-make-long-term-plans.html

Io

Io download

http://github.com/stevedekorte/io/zipball/master

Io Programming Guide

http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html

Io Reference

http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/reference/index.html

Io -- The Unofficial Website

http://iolanguage.org/documentation

Prolog

SWI-Prolog 5.10.1 download

http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable

Adventure in Prolog

http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advfrtop.htm

SWI-Prolog 5.10 Reference Manual (PDF)

http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/doc/SWI-Prolog-5.10.1.pdf

Erlang

Erlang download

http://www.erlang.org/download.html

Getting Started with Erlang User's Guide

http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.8.1/doc/getting_started/users_guide.html

Erlang Reference Manual

http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/users_guide.html

Erlang OTP Reference Index (where to find what functions are available)

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/

A Concise Guide to Erlang (by Dr. Dave)

../ConciseGuides/concise-erlang.html

Installing Erlang on Mac OS X

http://sacharya.com/erlang-on-mac-osx/

Erlang Documentation

http://www3.erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.7.5/doc/

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

Tutorial: Learning Erlang – just the basic basics -- Giant Flying Saucer

http://giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=251

Erlang for C, C++ and Java Programmers

http://tamale.net/erlang/tutorial.shtml

Concurrent Programming in ERLANG

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/erlang/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf

Getting Started with Erlang

http://www3.erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.7.2/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html (v. 5.7.2)

Erlang Style Concurrency

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/concurrency.html

Erlang Community Site

http://trapexit.org/

CACM article on Erlang

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98014-erlang/fulltext

Clojure

Clojure download

http://clojure.org/downloads

Getting started

http://clojure.org/getting_started

Casting SPELs in Lisp (Clojure version)

http://www.lisperati.com/clojure-spels/casting.html

Quick Ref for Clojure Core

http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core

"Official" Clojure Cheat Sheet

http://clojure.org/cheatsheet (also available as PDF)

Other cheat sheets

http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/clojure/

Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM

http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

 

The Eternal Flame (Julie Ecklar)

Music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
Lyrics at http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/EternalFlame.html

The Nature of Lisp

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

Revenge of the Nerds

http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

Clojure: Functional Programming

http://clojure.org/functional_programming

Haskell

Download and install Haskell (GHC)

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/

Download and install Haskell (HUGS)

http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/downloading.htm

Learn you a Haskell for Great Good

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

Introduction to Haskell (HUGS)

http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php/haskell

Yet Another Haskell Tutorial (HUGS)

http://alturl.com/g54hi

Scala

Trait Suite

(A good starting point for reading about scalatest)
http://www.scalatest.org/scaladoc/doc-1.0/org/scalatest/Suite.html

Trait ShouldMatchers (the really cool stuff)

http://www.scalatest.org/scaladoc/doc-1.0/org/scalatest/matchers/ShouldMatchers.html