CS 345 resources

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Reading:

Week of 10/13: We'll be covering material from chapters 2-4 in Touretzky over the next few lectures, so you should read these. Also, skim chapter 1.

Lectures:

Smalltalk Lectures:

• Slides from Lectures 3 and 4.
• Slides on Morphic.
• Slides on OO languages and features of Smalltalk. (9/23 lecture)

Lisp Lectures:

• 10-14 lecture
• 10-16 lecture
• 10-21 lecture
• 10-23 lecture
• 10-28 lecture
• 11-5 lecture

Python Lectures:

• Python Lecture 1
• Python Lecture 2
  • Examples from Lecture 2
• Python Lecture 3
  • Examples from lecture 3

Here is the slides from Tuesday's summary/wrap-up lecture.

Notes:

Here are the SketchPadMorph and BetterSketchPadMorph discussed in class on 9/18.

Handouts:

• A brief Unix Introduction.

Unix tutorials:

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners from University of Surrey.
• Another UNIX tutorial.
• Links to more UNIX resources.
• Notes from Terence Parr on looking like a Unix guru.

Emacs tutorials:

• A brief emacs intro from Iowa State.
• An HTML version of the official emacs tutorial. You can start this within Emacs by typing Ctrl-x t.
• The GNU Emacs reference manual. Everything you might want to know about Emacs is in here.
• A short tutorial that demonstrates compiling within emacs.

Python resources:

• The Python Home Page A wealth of information.
• A Python tutorial, written by Guido van Rossum, the original developer of Python.
• Another Python Intro
• Safari: O'Reilly's online library. Online access to all of O'Reilly's books, including their Python books. (Note: this is a subscription service, but well worth the $10/month, IMHO)
• A Python Quick Reference
• Python Online. This one's about Monty Python, rather than Python the language, but it's fun, and might explain why you see so many "spam" examples in Python tutorials.

Lisp Documentation:

• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David Touretzky. An excellent Lisp introduction.
• Basic Lisp Techniques An online book provided by Franz, Inc.
• Successful Lisp. An online book by David Lamkins.
• The Common Lisp Cookbook. How to do lots of common, useful tasks in Lisp.
• On Lisp More advanced Lisp material, including macros and CLOS. Much of the material we've been talking about regarding variable capture, with- macros and conditional evaluation comes from this book.

Lisp resources:

• Setting up Lisp:
  • The default lisp implemntation is CLISP, which is installed on both the windows and linux partitions on the lab machines.
  • I strongly recommend running lisp within emacs. A .emacs file that will help with this can be found here.
  • Notes on setting up lisp and Emacs more generally can be found in the Common Lisp Cookbook.
• The Common Lisp HyperSpec A Complete reference for Common Lisp.
• Common Lisp, The Language. A slightly older reference.
• Common Lisp, The Language A mirror of the above page. (Some of the CMU links are broken.)
• Association of Lisp Users.
• Brief notes about using vi with lisp. (Note: emacs and lisp work very nicely together, so if you know emacs, use that. if you want to know how to integrate them, let me know & I'll put up some notes. Also, if you're doing large-scale coding, you'll want a better editor than Notepad!)
• Some notes on Lisp Style. More notes on lisp style. Much of this is beyond what we'll cover, but there's some nice points about making your code readable.
• CLiki - the Common Lisp Wiki.
• Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp A nice set of notes by an experienced programmer learning Lisp. LOTS of useful links.
• Lisp resources at Johns Hopkins.

Lisp implementations:

• The CLISP home page. A free lisp implementation. There are binaries for Windows, Mac, and pretty much all Un*xes. The only drawback to this is incomplete support for CLOS.
• CMU Common Lisp. A free, more complete lisp implementation. Unix only.
• The FTP site for GNU Common Lisp. A bit of a pain to get up and running.
• Franz, Inc. makers of Allegro Common Lisp. There are free trial versions for Windows, OS X, FreeBSD and Linux. The trial version has a limited heap size, which keeps you from building large-scale applications, but that won't affect us in class. I believe the compiler may also be hamstrung, but that won't affect us either.

Squeak resources:

• Documentation about the Squeak Virtual Machine.
• An online Squeak reference for the entire language.
• A Squeak interface reference - read through this on your own. (8/26/02)
• An intro to Smalltalk using Squeak.
• This is a reference for most of the basic classes.
• here's another simple tutorial that starts using Morphic.
• a tutorial on Morphic, the Squeak Windowing system.
• The Morphic User-Interface Framework A comprehensive overview of Morphic. READ THIS!!
• Networking in Squeak. How to use Squeak's network classes. This will be helpful for the first project.
• The Squeak Cookbook A helpful compendium of recipes for doing common things in Squeak.
• The Squeak Wiki. A collaborative homepage for Squeak. Full of useful information, tutorials, and documentation.

The Squeak source code for Windows.

Smalltalk resources:

• Smalltalk.org The Smalltalk homepage.
• The Squeak implementation of Smalltalk.
• A very nice overview of Smalltalk, contrasting it with C and Java.
• The GNU version of Smalltalk.
• Lots of Smalltalk links and tutorials.
• More Smalltalk links and tutorials.
• The Joy of Smalltalk.