1. CS 403: Programming Languages Lecture 1 Fall 2003 Department of Computer Science University of Alabama Joel Jones

2. ©2003 Joel Jones Outline Syllabus Prerequisites Policies Personal Information Why study programming languages? Announcements Reading & Questions for Next Class

3. ©2003 Joel Jones Name: Programming Languages/Environments: Group Work Experience: What you expect of the class: Personal Information Email:

4. ©2003 Joel Jones Name: Joel Jones Programming Languages/Environments:C, C++, Java, Smalltalk on Macintosh, Unix, VMS Group Work Experience:Industry experience for DP, scheduling, OS, and compilers What you expect of the class:Preparation, Participation, Perception Previous Compiler Experience:GCC, Dylan->68K, IR->IA- 64 like, ALV->Scheme & ML, kaffe, JVM->annotated JVM My Personal Information Email:jones@cs.ua.edu

5. ©2003 Joel Jones Teaming and Active Learning Group Work Active Participation in Classroom Questioning Preparation Working in Pairs Reporting

6. ©2003 Joel Jones Now Try it! Pair Up: Talk to the person next to you and get their name and why they are taking this class? Be ready to report it.

7. ©2003 Joel Jones Why study programming languages? Pair Up: With a partner, come up reasons to study programming languages.

8. ©2003 Joel Jones Example of language-based solution: LilyPond http://lilypond.org/web/index.html Music layout system Little (?) language for specifying music (see handouts) Written in C++, Scheme, L a T e X

9. ©2003 Joel Jones Announcements ACM initial meeting of the year. Thursday, August 28th, 5:00pm, EE 119. Industrial Colloquium Series. Tuesday, September 2nd, 5:00pm in EE119. Herschel Chandler will talk about "Being an Independent Computer Consultant." The talk will cover: What is it like to be an independent computer consultant? How to you prepare for such a career and how do you get started? How do you get clients, and what is it like working with them?

10. ©2003 Joel Jones Reading & Questions for Next Class Do a web search on programming languages Answer the following questions: Within an order of magnitude (1,10, 100, 1000, 10000, …), how many programming languages are there? Within an order of magnitude, how many programming languages are used by more than a million people?