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, Elm, and Scala, with brief 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 26	Introduction Prolog 1 - Monotonic Reasoning	A Concise Introduction to Prolog SWI-Prolog
Aug 31	Prolog 2 - Unification Prolog 3 - Lists	Logic Puzzles (Prolog) Comments on Logic Puzzles
Sept 2	Prolog 4 - Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Sept 7	Labor Day (no classes)
Sept 9	Prolog 5 - Resolution	Adventure Game (Prolog) Four-Minute Guide to Resolution Resolution in Monty Python
Sept 14	Prolog 6 - Conversion to Clause Form Prolog 7 - Concepts Functional Programming	Beating the Averages
Sept 16	Prolog quiz Clojure 1 - Thinking in Clojure	Exercises (Clojure) Three tutorials (use as needed): A Concise Guide to Clojure (mine) Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM (Most popular, long) Clojure Tutorial for the Non-Lisp Programmer (Short and quite good) Clojure for the Brave and True (Long but fun)
Sept 21	Clojure 2 - Lisp Reloaded
Sept 23	Clojure 3 - Recursion World Meeting of Families, Sept. 22-27 Pope in Philadelphia, Sept. 26-27 SEPTA schedule disrupted, Sept. 26-27	Resolution (Clojure)
Sept 28	No class
Sep 30	Clojure 4 - Sequences	Equal Piles (Clojure) The Free Lunch is Over Clojure STM - What? Why? How?
Oct 5	Clojure 6 - Concurrency	Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM (Concurrency)
Oct 7	Clojure 5 - Calling Java	sharks.clj (example of structs) collatz.clj (example of agents and STM)
Oct 12	Clojure 7 - Macros Clojure 8 - Loop Clojure 9 - Concepts	Match Macro (Clojure)
Oct 14	Clojure to Haskell Haskell 1	Concise Introduction to Haskell
Oct 19	Clojure quiz Haskell 2 Functions and Patterns	Exercises (Haskell)
Oct 21	Haskell 3 Examples Haskell 4 More Functions
Oct 26	Haskell 5 Monads
Oct 28	Forth REBOL	Sleepy Adventure (Haskell) spider.hs
Nov 2	Haskell quiz Haskell 6 Concepts Elm 1	Concise Introduction to Elm
Nov 4	Elm 2 Scala Apologia	Snipe Game (Elm)
Nov 9	Scaladoc Starting Scala	Concise Introduction to Scala From Java to Scala
Nov 11	Scala Lists	Spell Checker (Scala)
Nov 16	Elm quiz Functional Scala Scala API
Nov 18	Classes and Objects	Playfair Cipher (Scala)
Nov 23	More about Functions Scala API
Nov 25	Day before Thanksgiving (No class)
Nov 30	Patterns Actors	Path Finding Puzzle (Scala) My tests: puzzle1.txt, puzzle2.txt, puzzle3.txt
Dec 2	Regular Expressions
Dec 7	Scala quiz Monads
Dec 17 12:00-2:00	Towne 311. This exam date/time is set by the Registrar and is non-negotiable.	2011 Final Exam 2013 Final Exam 2014 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