	UMBC CMSC 331 Spring 2012 Principles of Programming Languages
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This page contains various 331-related resources on where to get help, UMBC's computing environments, and programming language content

Where to Get Help

Course Staff — you're welcome to stop by any staff member's office hours
Course Blackboard — forums are available for both general topics and specific homeworks and exams. Students are encouraged to ask and answer questions.
Computer Science Help Center — first-come first-serve tutoring for select CMSC courses (including CMSC 202)
UMBC Division of Information Technology (DoIT) — help with your GL account
Linux User's Group (LUG) — the LUG typically has an installfest each semester to assist in install Linux and maintains an active mailing list where people ask and answer Linux questions.

Racket — the version os the Scheme programming language system we will use
Python — get the latest version of the Python interpreter
WinSCP — transfer files from your Windows PC/laptop to the GL severs
TeraTerm Pro with SSH for Windows — a terminal emulator to connect your Windows PC/laptop to the GL servers
PuTTY — another terminal emulator to connect your Windows PC/laptop to the GL severs

The Paradigms of Programming, Robert W FLoyd. CACM v22:8, August 1979, pp 455-460. This classic paper was written by Floyd on winning the 1978 Turing Award.
What is ‘‘ObjectOriented Programming’’? (1991 revised version) Bjarne Stroustrup AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
On the Notion of Inheritance, ANTERO TAIVALSAARI, Nokia Research Center
Logic Programming and Constraint Logic Programming, JACQUES COHEN Brandeis University
On growing a language, Guy Steele, OOPSLA 98 talk.
I Have a Feeling We're Not In Emerald City Anymore, Henry G. Baker, SigPLAN Notices 4, 1997.
A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham, OOPSLA, 1989.
Why Functional Programming Matters, John Hughes, 1984
Luca Cardelli, Peter Wegner: On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 17, Number 4, December 1985, 471-522
Paul Graham, Beating the Averages, This article is based on a talk given at the Franz Developer Symposium in Cambridge, MA,on March 25,2001.
Edsger W. Dijkstra, Go To Statement Considered Harmful, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 3, March 1968, pp. 147-148.
How to pick a programming language. Origiinally a post to comp.lang.python
...for more papers, brose the papers directory

The Java Tutorial. A good introduction to Java.
The Java Language Specification. A formal specification of the language.
Thinking in Java, Bruce Eckel, 2nd edition Published by Prentice-Hall, June 2000
We have a local copy at UMBC including the text, the code examples and also the zip files of both
Getting started with java. a good roadmap from Sun
Essentials of the JavaTMProgramming Language: A Hands-On Guide, Each chapter defines a Java platform feature and provides easy-to-understand instruction on writing simple programs in many categories. Part two covers advanced topics.
On To Java, Patrick Winston, Draft of the Third Edition.
Common Java Mistakes
BlueJ is an (open source) integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching.

The Parable of the Languages -- "If programming languages could speak, really speak, not just crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both wise and profound."
The Evolution of a Programmer