CS451: Week One

CS 451 Programming Paradigms
Week One

Lecture 1 : Tuesday, 1/18/00

Review syllabus
Review grading options
Stressed use of CS451 mailing list
Importance of building your own software environment
Introduced idea of virtual machine as framework for course
George and Joseph have office hours following class on Tu & Th

Lecture 2 : Thursday, 1/20/00

Introduction to the four programming paradigms in the course
Continued discussion of the virtual machine
Meta-interpreters, programming languages, other instances of virtual machines
How can we "compare" computing paradigms
Does one have greater "power" than any other?
What does it mean to compute anyway?
Introduction to Turing machine and Church/Turing hypothesis

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