Resources

Last Updated: 2009 November 30

Instructor

• The best method of getting in touch with the instructor is at class or send e-mail.

• For office hours and email address follow the link in the title frame.

Notes

• Examples, potential test questions and exercises

• Solutions to tests and reports -- password restricted to CSE faculty and to students enrolled in the course.

• On learning -- What CS students should know, but don't

• What one person from the real world wrote about learning

• On education and employment

• Symbols and property lists (12K)

• Lambda calculus (12K)

• Functional Programming 12 pages

• Some language definitions 2 pages

Clisp Common Lisp To use Lisp on Prism

• To run Lisp execute the command clisp. To exit execute (bye) at the prompt.

• Try this for a more efficient use of clisp and emacs on Prism.

• Parameters for clisp are available on Prism as a man page; use the command man clisp.

• Clisp documentation for the installed version is here.

About Common Lisp

• An introduction and Tutorial for Common Lisp. Lots of links to other Lisp pages.

• Common Lisp: The Language (2nd Edition, HTML version). This was the official language definition prior to the release of the ANSI Specification, and is still a useful reference.
  • Index
  • Intro/Overview

Getting Common Lisp

• For my Intel Mac I used MacPorts to download clisp. MacPorts is the new name for DarwinPorts, although DarwinPorts is the way I found the available downloads.

• Public domain Clisp. On older PPC Mac machines running classic I was able to download a Mac version by clicking on the link "SourceForge downloads/HTTP" and then selecting the lastest Darwin version (Darwin is the Unix system that underlies the Mac OS X operating system). But I was unable to find one recently.

  I notice that there are win32 versions that I assume work on Windows systems. There are also Unix versions that I assume will work on Linux.

SWI-Prolog To use SWI-prolog on Prism

• To run Prolog execute the command pl. To exit enter <CTRL>-D at the prompt.

• Documentation is avaliable on the web.
• Documentation for Prolog unit test using PlUnit.

Getting Prolog

• SWI-Prolog -- Windows and Mac OS X versions of Prolog. Free software licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License. Look under downloads and IDE tools.

About Prolog

• A starting point is the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Prolog repository.