Different programming languages involve different concepts and different ways of thinking about problems. The intent of this course is to cover these concepts in a practical, rather than a purely theoretical, setting. That is, you will be given assignments that entail using most of these concepts.

The main languages I expect to cover are Prolog, Clojure (a Lisp variant), Haskell, and Scala, with mention of a few others. This list is subject to change; new languages are being developed at the rate of about one a week, and sometimes one catches my eye.

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Date	Lectures	Readings, Assignments, etc.
Aug 27	Intro to CIS 554 (not shown in class) Prolog (Programming in Logic)	A Concise Introduction to Prolog
Sept 1	Labor Day (no classes)
Sept 3	Prolog (Unification)	Logic Puzzles (Prolog) Logic Puzzle Notes
Sept 8	Prolog (Lists) Prolog (Nonmonotonic Logic)
Sept 10	Prolog (Resolution)	Adventure Game (Prolog) Games by students
Sept 15	Prolog quiz and answers Erlang 1	Prolog cheat sheet A Concise Introduction to Erlang Don't forget about this course's Resources page!
Sept 17	Erlang 2	Erlang Exercises (Erlang) Language Flamewars and the Blub Paradox
Sept 22	Erlang 3	The Free Lunch is Over
Sept 24	Functional programming	Equal Piles (Erlang)
Sept 29	Concurrency Clojure 2 (Lisp reloaded)
Oct 1	Erlang quiz	A Concise Introduction to Clojure Clojure Exercises (Clojure)
Oct 6	Clojure 1 (thinking in Clojure)
Oct 8	Clojure 3 (recursion, higher-order functions)	Poker Hands (Clojure)
Oct 13	Clojure 4 (sequences) Clojure 5 (calling Java)
Oct 15	Clojure 6 (concurrency)	Vehicle Routing (Clojure)
Oct 20	Clojure 7 (macros)	Clojure Macros for Beginners collatz.clj (STM example)
Oct 22	Clojure 8 (tail recursion) Clojure 9 (concepts)	For loop macro (Clojure)
Oct 27	Clojure to Haskell Haskell 2 (Functions and Patterns)	Concise Guide to Haskell
Oct 29	Clojure quiz Haskell 1 (GHCi)	Percolation (Haskell) Learn Haskell in 10 Minutes
Nov 3	Haskell 3 (examples) Haskell 4 (more functions)
Nov 5	Haskell 5 (Monads)	Adventure (Haskell)
Nov 10	Elm (references only)
Nov 12	Haskell quiz Scala Apologia Starting Scala	Frogger (Elm) and images
Nov 17	Scala Lists	Concise Introduction to Scala Pig.scala
Nov 19	Elm quiz (short) Scaladoc Getting Functional in Scala	Animals Game (Scala)
Nov 24	Classes and Objects More Functions
Nov 26	Day before Thanksgiving (No class)
Dec 1	Scala API Patterns	Scala API Scala I/O code samples KWIC index (Scala)
Dec 3	Swing Actors	Scala Option type
Dec 8	Review Scala quiz
Dec 12	Final Exam, 12m-2pm, David Rittenhouse Labs (DLRB), A4 This exam date/time is set by the Registrar and is non-negotiable. Final Exam and Answer Key	2011 Final Exam 2013 Final Exam

Key
A PowerPoint document, usually one of my lectures	An assignment	Software that will be useful in this course
A tutorial	Additional information about the assignment or topic	Official specification (always offsite)
An article; indicates offsite	Example	Quiz or exam